Space and Time in the Microworld
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 33. The Scale for the Asymptotic Time T
- 34. Unstable Particles (Resonances)
- 35. Conditions of Macroscopic Causality for the S-matrix
- 36. Examples of Acausal Influence Functions
- 37. An Example of Constructing an Acausal Scattering Matrix
- 38. The Dispersion Relation for the Acausal ?a-Matrix
- VII. A Generalization of Causal Relationships and Geometry
- 39. Two Possible Generalizations
- 40. Euclidean Geometry in the Microworld
- 41. Stochastic Geometry
- 42. Discrete Space-Time
- 43. Quasi-Particlcs in Quantized Space
- 44. Fluctuations of the Metric
- 45. Nonlinear Fields and the Quantization of Space-Time
- VIII. Experimental Questions
- 46. Concluding Remarks on the Theory
- 47. Experimental Consequences of Local Acausality
- 48. Experimental Results of Models with the “External” Vector
- Appendices
- I. Geometrical Measurements in the Macroworld
- 1. The Arithmetization of Space-Time
- 2. The Physical Methods of Arithmetization of Space-Time
- 3. On Dividing the Manifold of Events into Space and Time
- 4. The Aftine Manifold
- 5. The Riemann Manifold
- 6. The Physics of Arithmetization of the Space-Time Manifold
- 7. Arithmetization of Events in the Case of the Non-Linear Theory of Fields
- 8. The General Theory of Relativity and the Arithmetization of Space-Time
- 9. Chronogeometry
- II. Geometrical Measurements in the Microworld
- 10. Some Remarks on Measurements in the Microworld
- 11. The Measurement of Coordinates of the Microparticles
- 12. The Mechanics of Measuring Coordinates of Microparticles
- 13. Indirect Measurement of a Microparticle Coordinates at a Given Instant in Time
- III. Geometrical Measurements in the Microworld in the Relativistic Case
- 14. The Fermion Field
- 15. The Uncertainty Relation for Fermions
- 16. The Boson Field
- 17. The Localization of Photons
- 18. The Diffusion of Relativistic Packets
- 19. The Coordinates of Newton and Wigner
- 20. The Measurement of a Microparticle’s Coordinates in the Relativistic Case
- IV. The Role of Finite Dimensions of Elementary Particles
- 21. The Polarization of Vacuum. The Dimensions of an Electron
- 22. The Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons
- 23. The Meson Structure of Nucleons
- 24. The Structure of Particles in Quantized Field Theory
- V. Causality in Quantum Theory
- 25. A Few Remarks on Causality in the Classical Theory of Fields
- 26. Causality in Quantum Field Theory
- 27. The Propagation of a Signal “Inside” a Microparticle
- 28. Microcausality in the Quantum Field Theory
- 29. Microcausality in the Theory of Scattering Matrices
- 30. Causality and the Analytical Properties of theScattering Matrix
- VI. Macroscopic Causality
- 31. Formal ?-matrix Theory
- 32. Space-Time Descriptions Using the ?-matrix