Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Tim Maudlin(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The third edition of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity has been carefully updated to reflect significant developments, including a new chapter covering important recent work in the foundations of physics.

• A new edition of the premier philosophical study of Bell’s Theorem and its implication for the relativistic account of space and timeContent:
  Chapter 1 Bell's Theorem: The Price of Locality (pages 6–26):
  Chapter 2 Relativity and Space?Time Structure (pages 27–54):
  Chapter 3 Finger Exercise: Superluminal Matter Transport (pages 55–73):
  Chapter 4 Controlling the Connection: Signals (pages 74–113):
  Chapter 5 Causation (pages 114–147):
  Chapter 6 Secret Messages (pages 148–172):
  Chapter 7 Points of View (pages 173–204):
  Chapter 8 Life in Elastic Space?Time (pages 205–220):
  Chapter 9 Morals (pages 221–223):
  Chapter 10 New Discoveries and Deeper Insights: The View from 2010 (pages 224–259):