1. Terminology here is fluid: except when quoting or paraphrasingothers, this entry uses “quantum theory” to label a genusof which quantum field theories as well as non-relativistic quantummechanics are species.
2. SIC abbreviates Symmetric, Informationally Complete positiveoperator-valued measure (POVM): see Renes, Blume-Cohout, Scott, andCaves 2004.
3. With a time-like world-line, an agent has no experience of space-likeseparated events.
4. They have been shown to exist at least in spaces of dimension\(d=2-53\); with high numerical precision for \(d=2-193\); and alsofor many other values of \(d\): see Bengtsson 2020.
5. Interview of Niels Bohr by ThomasS. Kuhn, Leon Rosenfeld, Aage Petersen, and Erik Rudinger on 1962November 17, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute ofPhysics, College Park, MD USA: see the link in theOther Internet Resources.
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