An Overview of the Transactional Interpretation （概述事务的解释）.pdf

International Journal of Theoretical Physics 27, 227 (1988). An Overview of the Transactional Interpretation John G. Cramer Dept. of Physics FM—15, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics is summarized and various points concern- ing the transactional interpretation and its relation to the Copenhagen interpretation are considered. Questions concerning mapping the transactional interpretation onto the Copenhagen interpretation, of advanced waves as solutions to proper wave equations, of collapse and the quantum formalism, and of the relation of quantum mechanical interpretations to experimental tests and results are discussed. INTRODUCTION berg in a 1960 letter to Renninger wrote[3], “The act of recording, on the other hand, which leads to the re- It is now nearly a year since my paper[1] appeared duction of the state, is not a physical, but rather, so to describing the transactional interpretation of quantum say, a mathematical process. With the sudden change mechanics (TI). That review article contained a detailed of our knowledge also the mathematical presentation of discussion of the interpretations and interpretational our knowledge undergoes of course a sudden change.” problems of quantum mechanics. For the present The knowledge interpretation’s account of state vector discussion, therefore, I will prese