Time, Quantum and Information
This collection of essays presented to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker on the occasion of his 90th birthday addresses a wide readership interested in astronomy, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The articles treat subjects such as the social responsibility of scientists, thermonuclea...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Philosophy of Science and the Nature of Time
- What Is Missing? — The Fundamental Role of Time in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Conception of Physics and Some Insights from Modern Neuroscience
- Irreversibility via Semichaos
- Remarks on Fractional Time
- The Dynamics of Modelling
- IV The Structure of Quantum Theory and Its Interpretation
- An Introduction to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Program for a Reconstruction of Quantum Theory
- Interpreting Quantum Mechanics — in the Light of Quantum Logic
- On the Interpretation of Quantum Theory — from Copenhagen to the Present Day
- Epistemic and Ontic Quantum Realities
- Information and Fundamental Elements of the Structure of Quantum Theory
- Multiple Quantization in Fock Space
- V The Ur-Hypothesis and Its Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
- The Ur-Hypothesis
- TheMomentum Eigenstates and the Lorentz-Invariant State
- C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Reconstruction of Physics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- The Operational Structure of Spacetime
- Ur Theory and Space-Time Structure
- Weizsäcker’s Ur Theory — A Cosmological Point of View
- Ur Theory and Cosmological Phase Transition
- Phase Transitions in an Expanding Universe: Paul Roman’s Models and Some Remarks on Entropy
- C. F. von Weizsäcker: Biographical Data and Selected Bibliography in Physics
- The Authors
- I Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and His Role in the Physics of the 20th Century
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and The Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society
- The Role of the Physicist in the Nuclear Age
- “The Atomic Bomb Reveals the Political Responsibility of Science”
- On the Unfathomableness of Consciousness by Consciousness
- II Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Contributions to Nuclear and Astrophysics and Their Impact on the Development of Physics
- Introduction: From the Atomic Nucleus to Cosmic Vortex Systems
- The Origins of Nuclear Physics and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s Semi-Empirical Mass Formula
- Thermonuclear Processes in Stars and Stellar Neutrinos
- Comets: Fascinating Cosmic Objects
- The Spectrum of Turbulence
- From Dust Disks to Planetary Systems
- III The Unity of Nature and the Nature of Time
- Science and Its Relation to Nature in C.F. von Weizsäcker’s Natural Philosophy