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I have chosen to speak on a problem which has been with us since the birth of quantum mechanics. On the one hand this has the advantage that much concerning this problem is part of the general education of a physicist and and it is possible to draw on a large body of earlier work; this report will, in large measure, be in the nature of a review. On the other hand, I shall have to conclude with the confession that inspite of some progress, the problem remains, in many important respects, unsolved.
“ Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.“
T.S.Eliot Burnt Norton (1943)
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Datta, K. (1986). Time Symmetry and the Theory of Measurement. In: Gruber, B., Lenczewski, R. (eds) Symmetries in Science II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1472-2_9
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