Quantum Physics Without Quantum Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Nino Zanghì (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible. This book concerns Bohmian mechanics, a simple particle theory that is a counterexample to such claims. The gentle introduction and other contributions collected here show how the phenomena of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to non-commuting observables, emerge from the Bohmian motion of particles, the natural particle motion associated with Schrödinger's equation. This book will be of value to all students and researchers in physics with an interest in the meaning of quantum theory as well as to philosophers of science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Quantum Equilibrium and the Origin of Absolute Uncertainty....Pages 23-77
Quantum Equilibrium and the Role of Operators as Observables in Quantum Theory....Pages 79-161
Quantum Philosophy: The Flight from Reason in Science....Pages 163-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Seven Steps Towards the Classical World....Pages 171-182
On the Quantum Probability Flux through Surfaces....Pages 183-192
On the Weak Measurement of Velocity in Bohmian Mechanics....Pages 193-203
Topological Factors Derived From Bohmian Mechanics....Pages 205-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac Models....Pages 223-238
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory....Pages 239-246
Quantum Spacetime without Observers: Ontological Clarity and the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Gravity....Pages 247-261
Reality and the Role of the Wave Function in Quantum Theory....Pages 263-278
Back Matter....Pages 17-17

✦ Subjects

Quantum Physics;Philosophy of Science