Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty Historical, Philosophical, and Physical Inquiries into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
This volume contains proceedings from the International School of History of Science, Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty: Historical Philosophical and Physical Inquiries into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, convened at the Ettore Maj orana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, 5-15 August...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | NATO Science Series B:, Physics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Opening Remarks
- Imagery, Probability and the Roots of Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Paper
- Against “Measurement”
- An Exposition of Bell’s Theorem
- Wave-Particle Duality: A Case Study
- “Nicht Sein Kann Was Nicht Sein Darf”, Or the Prehistory of the EPR, 1909–1935: Einstein’s Early Worries About the Quantum Mechanics of Composite Systems
- to Two-Particle Interferometry
- A New View on the Uncertainty Principle
- Measurement Problems in Quantum Field Theory in the 1930’s
- On the Collapse of the Wave Function
- Old and New Ideas in the Theory of Quantum Measurement
- Toward a Relativistic Theory of Statevector Reduction
- The Breakdown of the Superposition Principle
- Mathematical and Philosophical Questions in the Theory of Open and Macroscopic Quantum Systems
- Induced Nonlinear Time Evolution of Open Quantum Objects
- Quantum Logic: A Summary of Some Issues
- Remarks on the Measurement of Discrete Physical Quantities
- Some Comments and Reflections
- Invited Lecturers