The Quantum Labyrinth [E-Book] / by Dick J. Hoekzema.
At the outset of the research leading to this book I held a position somewhere close to 'the standard Copenhagen interpretation' of QM. I was strongly attracted to, in particular, the philosophy of Niels Bohr. However, being aware of some of the problematic sides and ambiguities of his vie...
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Personal Name(s): | Hoekzema, Dick J., author |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
1993
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Physical Description: |
XVI, 281 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9789401117777 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-94-011-1777-7 |
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Fundamental Theories of Physics, An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application ;
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- The Quantum Labyrinth, A Treatise on Quantum Mechanics and Comparative Metaphysics
- 1 Realism, empiricism, pluralism
- 1.1 Realism versus empiricism
- 1.2 Metaphysical pluralism
- 2 Comparative metaphysics
- 2.1 Ambiguity and meta-ambiguity
- 2.2 Describing complex systems
- 3 The construction of physical reality
- 3.1 A model of theories
- 3.2 Contexts
- 3.3 Further elaborations on contextual semantics
- 4 Quantum mechanics
- 4.1 Logical peculiarities of QM
- 4.2 Measurement postulates
- 5 ‘Recent’ developments in measurement theory
- 5.1 Effect valued measures
- 5.2 Operation valued measures
- 5.3 Some cases in measurement theory
- 5.4 ABL measures
- 6 Contextual QM
- 6.1 The initial contextual formulation of QM
- 6.2 Quantum process theory
- 6.3 A particle interpretation
- 6.4 Event theory
- 7 Completeness and locality
- 7.1 Quantum ‘theory’?
- 7.2 Contextual QM and completeness
- 7.3 Splitting magnitudes
- 7.4 The incompleteness of the standard formalism of QM
- 7.5 Locality
- 7.6 Speculations on time-symmetry, causality, and quantum gravity
- 8 A maze of QMs
- 8.1 General methodological remarks
- 8.2 Nonclassical alternatives
- 8.3 Variations on the initial formalism
- 8.4 The Von Neumann chain
- 8.5 Relative process states
- 8.6 Conclusions
- 9 Quantum Event Theory, A Tetrode-Fokker version of Quantum Field Theory
- 9.1 Quantum events
- 9.2 Event fields
- 9.3 Field equations
- 9.4 The correspondence between field theory and event theory
- 9.5 Probabilities reconsidered
- 10 Contextual logic
- 10.1 The general structure of contextual logic
- 10.2 Some applications
- 10.3 Relevance, truth, reality
- 10.4 End.