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Page and Geilker (1981) envisaged the following gedanken experiment, reminiscent of Schr¨ odinger’s cat, to distinguish between these options. In a box, there is a radioactive source together with two masses that are connected by a spring. Initially, the masses are rigidly connected, so that they cannot move. If a radioactive decay happens, the rigid connection will be broken and the masses can swing towards each other. Outside the box, there is a Cavendish balance that is sensitive to the location of the masses and therefore acts as a device to ‘measure’ their position.
9 The same arguments also apply of course to electrodynamics: Aµ cannot transform as a Lorentz vector, since, for example, the temporal gauge A0 = 0 can be chosen. 44). 10 The group-theoretic argument for QED goes as follows. A vector field transforms according to the D(1/2,1/2) representation of the Lorentz group which, if restricted to rotations, can be decomposed as D(1/2,1/2) = D(1/2) ⊗ D(1/2) = D(1) ⊕ D(0) . 48) The D(0) describes spin-0, which is eliminated by the Lorenz condition ∂ν Aν = 0.
35), therefore, the Cavendish balance would follow the dynamics of the expectation value and slightly swing in the course of time. This is in sharp contrast to the prediction of linear quantum gravity, where in each component the balance reacts to the mass configuration and would thus be observed to swing instantaneously at a certain time. This is, in fact, what has been observed in the actual experiment (Page and Geilker 1981). 35) cannot fundamentally be true under the given assumption (validity of the Everett interpretation).