Myrvold, Wayne C.
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
I. Introduction
1. Passion at a Distance
Don Howard
II. Philosophy, Methodology and History
2. Balancing Necessity and Fallibilism: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Status of Mathematics and its Intersection with the Inquiry into Nature
Ronald Anderson
3. Newton's Methodology
William Harper
4. Whitehead's Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics (QM)
Shimon Malin
5. Bohr and the Photon
John Stachel
III. Bell's Theorem and Nonlocality
6. Extending the Concept of an “Element of Reality” to Work with Inefficient Detectors
Daniel M. Greenberger
7. A General Proof of Nonlocality without Inequalities for Bipartite States
GianCarlo Ghirardi, Luca Marinatto
8. On the Separability of Physical Systems
Jon P. Jarrett
9. Bell Inequalities: Many Questions, a Few Answers
Nicolas Gisin
10. Do Experimental Violations of Bell Inequalities Require a Nonlocal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? II: Analysis à la Bell
Edward S. Fry, Xinmei Qu, Marlan O. Scully
11. The Physics of 2 ? 1+1
Yanhua Shih
IV. Probability, Uncertainty, and Stochastic Modifications of Quantum Mechanics
12. Interpretations of Probability in Quantum Mechanics: A Case of “Experimental Metaphysics”
Geoffrey Hellman
13. “No Information Without Disturbance”: Quantum Limitations of Measurement
Paul Busch
14. How Stands Collapse II
Philip Pearle
15. Is There a Relation Between the Breakdown of the Superposition Principle and an Indeterminacy in the Structure of the Einsteinian Space-Time?
Andor Frenkel
16. Indistinguishability or Stochastic Dependence?
D. Costantini, U. Garibaldi
V. Relativity
17. Plane Geometry in Spacetime
N. David Mermin
18. The Transient
Steven F. Savitt
19. Quantum in Gravity?
Michael Horne
20. A Proposed Test of the Local Causality of Spacetime
Adrian Kent
21. Quantum Gravity Computers: On the Theory of Computation with Indefinite Causal Structure
Lucien Hardy
22. “Definability,” “Conventionality,” and Simultaneity in Einstein–Minkowski Space-Time
Howard Stein
VI. Concluding Words
23. Bistro Banter
24. UnfinishedWork: A Bequest
Abner Shimony
Avainsanat: SCIENCE / Physics SCI055000
- Tekijä(t)
- Myrvold, Wayne C.
- Christian, Joy
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2008
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
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- 527 sivua
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- 9781402091070