Conditional Probabilities and Measurements
摘要
Probabilistic realism as presented in Part I is based on the concept of an overall probability distribution, describing the whole universe from the infinite past to the infinite future. However, in practice, one is often interested in subsystems that are local in time and space. A typical question physicists might ask is: if I have prepared certain initial experimental conditions, what will be the outcome? This type of question concerns conditional probabilities.