At what level of physical existence does "quantum behavior" begin? How does it develop from classical mechanics? This book addresses these questions and thereby sheds light on fundamental conceptual problems of quantum mechanics. It elucidates the problem of quantum-classical correspondence by developing a procedure for quantizing stochastic systems (e.g. Brownian systems) described by Fokker-Planck equations. The logical consistency of the scheme is then verified by taking the classical limit of the equations of motion and corresponding physical quantities. Perhaps equally important,...
At what level of physical existence does "quantum behavior" begin? How does it develop from classical mechanics? This book addresses these question...
Consciousness is one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the concerted actions of nerve cells and their associated synaptic and molecular processes? Can such feelings be explained by modern science, or is there an entirely different kind of explanation needed? And how can this seemingly intractable problem be approached experimentally? How do the operations of the conscious mind emerge out of the specific interactions involving billions of neurons? This multi-authored book seeks answers to these questions...
Consciousness is one of the major unsolved problems in science. How do the feelings and sensations making up conscious experience arise from the co...
This accessible and easy-to-follow book offers a new approach to consciousness. The author s eclectic style combines new physics-based insights with those of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, cognitive science and neuroscience. He proposes a view in which the mechanistic framework of classical physics and neuroscience is complemented by a more holistic underlying framework in which conscious experience finds its place more naturally."
This accessible and easy-to-follow book offers a new approach to consciousness. The author s eclectic style combines new physics-based insights wit...
This volume brings together leading quantum physicists to expound on the meaning and future directions of quantum mechanics. It offers new insights from different vantage points to tackle essential questions in quantum mechanics and its interpretation. All the authors have written for a broad readership, and the resulting volume will appeal to everyone wishing to keep abreast of new developments in quantum mechanics, as well as its history and philosophy.
This volume brings together leading quantum physicists to expound on the meaning and future directions of quantum mechanics. It offers new insights...
It has been suggested that the big questions of science are answered that science has entered a twilight age where all the important knowledge is known and only the details need mopping up. And yet, the unprecedented progress in science and technology in the twentieth century has raised qu- tions that weren t conceived of a century ago. This book argues that, far from being nearlycomplete, the storyof sciencehas many morechapters, yet unwritten. With the perspective of the century s advance, it s as if we have climbed a mountain and can see just how much broader the story is. Instead of...
It has been suggested that the big questions of science are answered that science has entered a twilight age where all the important knowledge is know...
Four previous editions of this book were published in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2001. They were preceded by a German version (Zeh 1984) that was based on lectures I had given at the University of Heidelberg. My interest in this subject arose originally from the endeavor to better - derstand all aspects of irreversibility that might be relevant for the statistical natureandinterpretationofquantumtheory. Thequantummeasurementp- cess is often claimed to represent an ampli?cation of microscopic properties to the macroscopic scale in close analogy to the origin of classical ?uctuations,...
Four previous editions of this book were published in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2001. They were preceded by a German version (Zeh 1984) that was based on ...
Coherence, entanglement, and interference arise from quantum superposition, the most distinctive and puzzling feature of quantum physics. Silverman, whose extensive experimental and theoretical work has helped elucidate these processes, presents a clear and engaging discussion of the role of quantum superposition in diverse quantum phenomena such as the wavelike nature of particle propagation, indistinguishability of identical particles, nonlocal interactions of correlated particles, topological effects of magnetic fields, and chiral asymmetry in nature. He also examines how macroscopic...
Coherence, entanglement, and interference arise from quantum superposition, the most distinctive and puzzling feature of quantum physics. Silverman...
Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand British physicist, 1871 1937), the 1908 Nobel Laureate who discovered the existence of atomic nuclei, is famously quoted as having said: Physics is the only real science. All the rest is butter?y collecting. Or something to that e?ect. I like to include this quote in my introductory remarks at the ?rst class meetings of the physics courses I teach. I have seen that there are those whointerpret this as a put-down of amateurs (butter?y collectors) in science. However, my own interp- tation of Rutherford s statement is that he is claiming that, except for physics,...
Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand British physicist, 1871 1937), the 1908 Nobel Laureate who discovered the existence of atomic nuclei, is famously quote...
Entanglement was initially thought by some to be an oddity restricted to the realm of thought experiments. However, Bell s inequality delimiting local - havior and the experimental demonstration of its violation more than 25 years ago made it entirely clear that non-local properties of pure quantum states are more than an intellectual curiosity. Entanglement and non-locality are now understood to ?gure prominently in the microphysical world, a realm into which technology is rapidly hurtling. Information theory is also increasingly recognized by physicists and philosophers as intimately...
Entanglement was initially thought by some to be an oddity restricted to the realm of thought experiments. However, Bell s inequality delimiting local...
This insightful book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming an evolved human trait. This aim is pursued by a team of expert authors from a range of disciplines.
This insightful book aims to provide a better understanding of the social scenarios in which selection pressure led to religious practices becoming...
