Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty: Historical, Philosophical, and Physical Inquiries Into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9781468487732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 316 str.

Arthur I. Miller

Opis

This volume contains proceedings from the International School of History of Science, Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty: Historical Philosophical and Physical Inquiries into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, convened at the Ettore Maj orana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, 5-15 August 1989. In response to the high state of enth, usiasm from the sixty-one participants there were six to eight lectures each day, beginning at 9:00 AM and often ending at 7:00 PM. Vigorous discussions took place at every opportunity, even including the delightful excursions. The papers presented here are by the twelve invited lecturers (in some cases with coauthors) with a contribution from Philip Pearle. AU of us attending the conference express our appreciation to the exemplary staff of the Ettore Majorana Centre, and particularly to the Centre's Director, Professor Antonino Zichichi. for superb hospitality which made this conference a memorable intellectual and cultural experience. It is a pleasure to acknowledge financial support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scientific Affairs Division

Spis treści

Opening Remarks.- Imagery, Probability and the Roots of Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Paper.- Against “Measurement”.- An Exposition of Bell’s Theorem.- Wave-Particle Duality: A Case Study.- “Nicht Sein Kann Was Nicht Sein Darf”, Or the Prehistory of the EPR, 1909–1935: Einstein’s Early Worries About the Quantum Mechanics of Composite Systems.- to Two-Particle Interferometry.- A New View on the Uncertainty Principle.- Measurement Problems in Quantum Field Theory in the 1930’s.- On the Collapse of the Wave Function.- Old and New Ideas in the Theory of Quantum Measurement.- Toward a Relativistic Theory of Statevector Reduction.- The Breakdown of the Superposition Principle.- Mathematical and Philosophical Questions in the Theory of Open and Macroscopic Quantum Systems.- Induced Nonlinear Time Evolution of Open Quantum Objects.- Quantum Logic: A Summary of Some Issues.- Remarks on the Measurement of Discrete Physical Quantities.- Some Comments and Reflections.- Invited Lecturers.

O autorze

Arthur I. Miller, geboren in New York, ist Physiker und emeritierter Professor für Geschichte und Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften am University College in London. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher über die Relativitätstheorie sowie über Kreativität in Kunst und Naturwissenschaften.