The Modal Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics

Author : Dennis Dieks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401150842
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics written by Dennis Dieks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which have definite values. Probabilities are assigned to the possible values that these magnitudes may adopt. The interpretation is thus concerned with physical properties rather than with measurement results: it is a realistic interpretation (in the sense of scientific realism). One of the notable achievements of this interpretation is that it dissolves the notorious measurement problem. The papers collected here, together with the introduction and concluding critical appraisal, explain the various forms of the modal interpretation, survey its achievements, and discuss those problems that have yet to be solved. Audience: Philosophers of science, theoretical physicists, and graduate students in these disciplines.

Author : Alastair Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198846215
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Contingency written by Alastair Wilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities, rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation; metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book's quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.

Author : Pieter E. Vermaas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521675673
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modal interpretations provide a general framework within which quantum mechanics can be considered as a theory that describes reality in terms of physical systems possessing definite properties. Modal interpretations are relatively new attempts to present quantum mechanics as a theory which, like other physical theories, describes an observer-independent reality. In this book, Pieter Vermaas details the results of this work. He provides both an accessible survey and a systematic reference work about how to understand quantum mechanics using a modal interpretation. The book will be of great value to undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in philosophy of science and physics departments with an interest in learning about modal interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Author : Pieter E. Vermaas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521675673
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher's Understanding of Quantum Mechanics written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modal interpretations provide a general framework within which quantum mechanics can be considered as a theory that describes reality in terms of physical systems possessing definite properties. Modal interpretations are relatively new attempts to present quantum mechanics as a theory which, like other physical theories, describes an observer-independent reality. In this book, Pieter Vermaas details the results of this work. He provides both an accessible survey and a systematic reference work about how to understand quantum mechanics using a modal interpretation. The book will be of great value to undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in philosophy of science and physics departments with an interest in learning about modal interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Author : Pieter Ernst Vermaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789039316245
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Possibilities and Impossibilities of Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics written by Pieter Ernst Vermaas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olimpia Lombardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617613166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics written by Olimpia Lombardi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive account of a new member of the family of the modal interpretations of quantum mechanics. According to the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation, the Hamiltonian of the quantum system plays a decisive role in the definition of systems and subsystems, and in the rule that selects the observables whose possible values become actual. This book begins by introducing the main interpretative postulates and by proving their Galilean invariance. Also discussed herein is an argument for the physical relevance of the interpretation.

Author : Gennaro Auletta
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810246143
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics written by Gennaro Auletta and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is twofold: to provide a comprehensive account of the foundations of the theory and to outline a theoretical and philosophical interpretation suggested from the results of the last twenty years.There is a need to provide an account of the foundations of the theory because recent experience has largely confirmed the theory and offered a wealth of new discoveries and possibilities. On the other side, the following results have generated a new basis for discussing the problem of the interpretation: the new developments in measurement theory; the experimental generation of ?Schr”dinger cats?; recent developments which allow, for the first time, the simultaneous measurement of complementary observables; quantum information processing, teleportation and computation.To accomplish this task, the book combines historical, systematic and thematic approaches.

Author : Richard Healey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521408745
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics written by Richard Healey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important books on quantum mechanics to appear in recent years offers a dramatically new interpretation to resolve puzzles and paradoxes associated with the measurement problem and the behavior of coupled systems.

Author : William Demopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402048769
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Theory and its Interpretation written by William Demopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity. They detail central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics, Einstein's hole argument in general relativity, quantum mechanics and special relativity, quantum correlations, quantum logic, and quantum probability and information.

Author : Jeffrey Bub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653862
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Quantum World written by Jeffrey Bub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy of physics title by highly regarded author, fully revised for this paperback edition.