Quantum Theory and Measurement

✍ Scribed by John Archibald Wheeler (editor); Wojciech Hubert Zurek (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 840
• Series: Princeton Series in Physics; 81
• Edition: Course Book
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together with an introduction and a supplemental annotated bibliography, they discuss issues that make quantum theory, overarching principle of twentieth-century physics, appear to many to prefigure a new revolution in science.

Originally published in 1983.

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✦ Table of Contents

Bohr And Einstein In Dialogue
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments And Copyright Information
I. Questions of Principle
II. Interpretations of The Act of Measurement
III. "Hidden Variables" Versus "Phenomenon" and Complementarity
IV. Field Measurements
V. Irreversibility And Quantum Theory
VI. Accuracy of Measurements: Quantum Limitations
Guide to some further Literature
Bibliography