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QUANTUM THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN<br />

localization. As long as the observer does not reflect the<br />

incoming phase wave, the event does not take place,<br />

Here again the individual events are indeterminable. In the<br />

Transactional Interpretation the state vector is considered to be a<br />

real physical wave emitted as an "offer wave" based on the<br />

preparation procedure of the experiment. The "confirmation<br />

wave" is also real so that a real standing wave is produce, which<br />

forms the guiding path. We will never know the process until the<br />

transaction is complete. When the transaction is over the input<br />

itself have changed and is totally collapsed beyond its original<br />

form to make any consistent deduction about it. As long as we<br />

are able to observe only what we know in history and our own<br />

present experience, we only know what is received and can in<br />

any reasonable level understand neither the offer wave nor the<br />

process of transaction in any given historic event.<br />

8.2 Consistent Histories Interpretation<br />

In the Consistent Histories Interpretation we have a similar<br />

situation because there the observed event again is a<br />

fundamental input in the sense that it determines the set of<br />

possible histories consistent with the observation made. There is<br />

no attempt to try to explain why a specific event happened<br />

except for the fact that it be consistent with the observed fact.<br />

<strong>Quantum</strong> mechanics makes predictions with respect to an<br />

ensemble of many individual events. These predictions are only<br />

to give the possible observed values of any situation. These<br />

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