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It is proposed that the transmutation from possibilities to facts should be introduced as an essential element in fundamental theory. This has no bearing on TCP-invariance. If indeterminism is accepted it leads to a picture of an evolving history formed by individual events and causal ties. In the low density regime it can be compared with the treatment of multiple collisions in quantum field theory.
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Communicated by A. Jaffe
Dedicated to Res Jost and Arthur Wightman, friends for many years and appreciators of unorthodox thought
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Haag, R. Fundamental irreversibility and the concept of events. Commun.Math. Phys. 132, 245–251 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02278010
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