Annual reports on the progress of chemistry for 1959: Vol. LVI, 476 pages, diagrams, 512 × 812 in. London, The Chemical Society, 1960. Price, 2 pounds, post free

• Book ID: 103085010
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Volume: 271
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(61)90242-3

✦ Synopsis

metry, invariance, continuity and the like. He thus develops the current Bohr-Helsenberg account, resting on Born's statistical interpretation, into a unitary theory. The book begins with a philosophical discussion of determinism and chance, in which the uncertainty of an individual event in a statistical group is linked to the postulate of macro-physical cause-effect continuity. Chapter Two deals with the states of a microphysical object in general, and the transition probabilities from state to state in reaction to macro-physlcal measuring instruments. Chapter Three suggests that the quantum law of probability interference is not a mere oddity, but a consequence of the nature of probability itself as a lawful connection between events.

Chapter Four gives a deduction of the most characteristic quantum feature---the wave-like relation between coordinates and momenta--from non-quantal theorems.

The book concludes with a critical survey of present fashions in quantum philosophy and language.