β Scribed by David B. Malament (auth.), Rob Clifton (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
But to admit things not visible to the gross creatures that we are is, in my opinion, to show a decent humility, and not just a lamentable addiction to metaphysics. J. S. Bell, Are There Quantum Jumps? ON CANADIAN THANKSGIVING WEEKEND in the autumn of 1994, a lively conference was held at The University of Western Ontario under the title "Conceptual Problems of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics". Most of the eighteen papers in this volume are directly connected with that conference. Articles by both theoretical physicists and philosophers of science are included, and many authors will be recognized immediately for their already substantive work in the foundations of physics. A quarter century ago Howard Stein suggested that relativistic quantum field theory should be 'the contemporary locus of metaphysical research', but there were few takers. Only fairly recently has that changed, with the result that the bulk of the papers here pursue issues that go beyond nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (or at least have serious implications for its relativistic generalization). Nevertheless, problems interpreting the nonrelativistic theory remain a persistent thorn in the side of any such endeavor, and so some of the papers develop innovative approaches to those issues as well.
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
In Defense of Dogma: Why There Cannot be a Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of (Localizable) Particles....Pages 1-10
Just How Radical is Hyperplane Dependence?....Pages 11-28
Is There Superluminal Causation in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory?....Pages 29-42
EPR, Relativity, and the GHZ Experiment....Pages 43-55
Hidden Quantum Non-Locality....Pages 57-71
Royerβs Measurements β The Rise and Fall of (Yet Another) Signalling Scheme....Pages 73-79
Tails of SchrΓΆdingerβs Cat....Pages 81-92
Wavefunction Collapse Models with Nonwhite Noise....Pages 93-109
The Emergence of Classical Properties from Quantum Mechanics....Pages 111-124
Relativism....Pages 125-142
Wave and Particle Concepts in Quantum Field Theory....Pages 143-154
The Conceptual Relation between Standard Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory....Pages 155-165
What Measurement Problem?....Pages 167-181
Bovine Metaphysics: Remarks on the Significance of the Gravitational Phase Effect in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 183-193
Exotic (Quixotic?) Applications of Bohm Theory....Pages 195-210
Complementarity and the Orthodox (Dirac-von Neumann) Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 211-226
Logical Reflections on the Kochen-Specker Theorem....Pages 227-235
Construction of Quantum Mechanics Via Commutative Operations....Pages 237-243
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The two famous volumes bound as one w/bookmarks and page linked indexes.
This book presents an accessible treatment of non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate physics students, and is also useful to researchers in theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, condensed matter, mathematical physics, quantum ch
This book provides an accessible treatment of non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate physics students, as well as researchers in theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, condensed matter, mathematical physics, quantum chemistry and
The well known parts of cannonical quantum field theory applied to abelian fields,circa 1965.