عنوان

The Quantum Labyrinth

(Number (ISBN

9401117772

(Number (ISBN

9789401117777

Number

b594920

Title Proper

The Quantum Labyrinth

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Dick J. Hoekzema.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1993

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xvi, 281 pages)

Series Title

Fundamental Theories of Physics, An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application, 51.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

This volume deals with the question of whether quantum mechanics can provide a picture of physical reality. This question is investigated from physical, philosophical, and logical perspectives on the basis of modern views on measurement and open quantum systems. New ways are found of respecting the rules of classical logic in quantum mechanics, by developing a formalization of the concept of a `context' within a modularized version of modal logic. Various applications are given, both within and outside quantum theory. A `contextual quantum process theory' is presented as a general framework for further interpretation. Several such interpretations are outlined, and ensuing problems of completeness and (non)locality are discussed. A special chapter is devoted to a manifestly covariant relativistic interpretation in terms of `quantum events'. This book will be of interest to experts on quantum theory, but it will also appeal to a wider public of physicists, philosophers and logicians.

Logic.

Physics.

Science -- Philosophy.

by Dick J. Hoekzema.

Dick J Hoekzema

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