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Quantum Mechanics and Experience / David Z Albert.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 1992Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674741126
  • 9780674020146
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.12
LOC classification:
  • QC39 ǂb A4 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Superposition -- 2. The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard Way of Thinking about It -- 3. Nonlocality -- 4. The Measurement Problem -- 5. The Collapse of the Wave Function -- 6. The Dynamics by Itself -- 7. Bohm's Theory -- 8. Self-Measurement -- Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question since then whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs, or even about the very contents of our thoughts. A new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science.This book is an original and provocative investigation of that challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. It is a lucid and self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics, accessible to anyone with a high school mathematics education, and at the same time a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of that subject, some of which are due to the author himself.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674020146

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Superposition -- 2. The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard Way of Thinking about It -- 3. Nonlocality -- 4. The Measurement Problem -- 5. The Collapse of the Wave Function -- 6. The Dynamics by Itself -- 7. Bohm's Theory -- 8. Self-Measurement -- Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations -- Bibliography -- Index

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The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question since then whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs, or even about the very contents of our thoughts. A new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science.This book is an original and provocative investigation of that challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. It is a lucid and self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics, accessible to anyone with a high school mathematics education, and at the same time a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of that subject, some of which are due to the author himself.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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