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It is pointed out, in theories which give a dynamical description of the reduction of the state vector, that the reduction should take place in a finite time. It is shown that the reduction time is infinite in the Bohm-Bub theory, and finite in the author's theory.
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Pearle, P. On the time it takes a state vector to reduce. J Stat Phys 41, 719–727 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009030
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