The quantum labyrinth /
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| Author / Creator: | Hoekzema, Dick J. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1993. |
| Description: | xvi, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fundamental theories of physics v. 51 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1425520 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
