A Philosophical Approach to Quantum Field Theory

✍ Scribed by Hans Christian Öttinger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 275
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This text presents an intuitive and robust mathematical image of fundamental particle physics based on a novel approach to quantum field theory, which is guided by four carefully motivated metaphysical postulates. In particular, the book explores a dissipative approach to quantum field theory, which is illustrated for scalar field theory and quantum electrodynamics, and proposes an attractive explanation of the Planck scale in quantum gravity. Offering a radically new perspective on this topic, the book focuses on the conceptual foundations of quantum field theory and ontological questions. It also suggests a new stochastic simulation technique in quantum field theory which is complementary to existing ones. Encouraging rigor in a field containing many mathematical subtleties and pitfalls this text is a helpful companion for students of physics and philosophers interested in quantum field theory, and it allows readers to gain an intuitive rather than a formal understanding.

✦ Subjects

Mathematical Physics;Physics;Science & Math;Quantum Field Theory;Quantum Mechanics;Physics;Philosophy of Science;Philosophy of Physics

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