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Author | : Philip Pearle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2024-01-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198901380 |
Quantum theory (QT) is the best, most useful physics theory ever invented. For example, ubiquitous are cell phones, laser scanners, medical imagers, all inventions depending on QT. However, there is something deeply wrong with QT. It describes the probabilities of what happens, but it does not give a description of what actually happens. Most (but not all) physicists are not worried about this flaw, the probabilities are good enough for them. Other physicists, the author included, believe that is not good enough. The purpose of physics is to describe reality. To not do so is to abandon 'the great enterprise' (John Bell). This book shows one way to alter QT so that the new theory does describe what actually happens. This theory, created over three decades ago, has been called the 'Continuous Spontaneous Localization' (CSL) theory. Many experiments over this period have tested CSL, and so far it is neither confirmed nor refuted. This book shows how CSL works, and discusses its consequences. Ideal for academic students, graduates and practising scientists and physicists seeking a deeper understanding of the quantum realm, this book provides accessible explanations and sheds light on the interplay between probability and reality in the realm of quantum theory.
Author | : Shan Gao |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107124352 |
Covering much of the recent debate, this ambitious text provides new, decisive proof of the reality of the wave function.
Author | : Shan Gao |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108428983 |
An overview of the collapse theories of quantum mechanics. Written by distinguished physicists and philosophers of physics, it discusses the origin and implications of wave-function collapse, the controversies around collapse models and their ontologies, and new arguments for the reality of wave function collapse.
Author | : Shan Gao |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2022-09-24 |
Genre | : Consciousness |
ISBN | : 0197501664 |
Consciousness and quantum mechanics are two great mysteries of our time--and recently scholars have postulated a deeper connection between them. Exploring this possible connection can be fruitful: an analysis of the conscious mind and psychophysical connection can be indispensable in understanding quantum mechanics and solving the notorious measurement problem, and there is also likely some kind of intimate connection between quantum mechanics--the most fundamental theory of the physical world--and our efforts to explain, naturalistically, the phenomenon of consciousness. The seventeen newly written chapters in this volume are divided into three sections: Consciousness and the Wave Function Collapse, Consciousness in Quantum Theories, and Quantum Approaches to Consciousness. This is the first volume to provide a comprehensive review and thorough analysis of intriguing conjectures about the connection between consciousness and quantum mechanics. Written by leading experts in physics, philosophy, and cognitive science, Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics will be of value to students and researchers working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of mind.
Author | : David J. Griffiths |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108103146 |
Changes and additions to the new edition of this classic textbook include a new chapter on symmetries, new problems and examples, improved explanations, more numerical problems to be worked on a computer, new applications to solid state physics, and consolidated treatment of time-dependent potentials.
Author | : David Bohm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005-07-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134438729 |
David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality.
Author | : John von Neumann |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780691028934 |
A revolutionary book that for the first time provided a rigorous mathematical framework for quantum mechanics. -- Google books
Author | : Robert B. Griffiths |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2003-11-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521539296 |
Quantum mechanics is one of the most fundamental yet difficult subjects in physics. Nonrelativistic quantum theory is presented here in a clear and systematic fashion, integrating Born's probabilistic interpretation with Schrödinger dynamics. Basic quantum principles are illustrated with simple examples requiring no mathematics beyond linear algebra and elementary probability theory. The quantum measurement process is consistently analyzed using fundamental quantum principles without referring to measurement. These same principles are used to resolve several of the paradoxes that have long perplexed physicists, including the double slit and Schrödinger's cat. The consistent histories formalism used here was first introduced by the author, and extended by M. Gell-Mann, J. Hartle and R. Omnès. Essential for researchers yet accessible to advanced undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science, this book is supplementary to standard textbooks. It will also be of interest to physicists and philosophers working on the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Author | : David Z. ALBERT |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674020146 |
This account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics, and provides a rigorous discussion of important recent advances in the understanding of quantum physics, including theories put forward by the author himself.
Author | : Hans Primas |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319473700 |
This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems are touched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher.