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Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521558816
Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.
Author : J. Bricmont,D. Dürr,M.C. Galavotti,G. Ghirardi,F. Petruccione,Nino Zanghi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540449669
This selection of reviews and papers is intended to stimulate renewed reflection on the fundamental and practical aspects of probability in physics. While putting emphasis on conceptual aspects in the foundations of statistical and quantum mechanics, the book deals with the philosophy of probability in its interrelation with mathematics and physics in general. Addressing graduate students and researchers in physics and mathematics togehter with philosophers of science, the contributions avoid cumbersome technicalities in order to make the book worthwhile reading for nonspecialists and specialists alike.
Author : David Bohm
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Science
ISBN : 0812210026
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.
Author : J. Bricmont,D. Durr,M. C. Galavotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662143372
Author : Yemima Ben-Menahem,Meir Hemmo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642213281
What is the role and meaning of probability in physical theory, in particular in two of the most successful theories of our age, quantum physics and statistical mechanics? Laws once conceived as universal and deterministic, such as Newton‘s laws of motion, or the second law of thermodynamics, are replaced in these theories by inherently probabilistic laws. This collection of essays by some of the world‘s foremost experts presents an in-depth analysis of the meaning of probability in contemporary physics. Among the questions addressed are: How are probabilities defined? Are they objective or subjective? What is their explanatory value? What are the differences between quantum and classical probabilities? The result is an informative and thought-provoking book for the scientifically inquisitive.
Author : David Z Albert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674020139
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students.
Author : Charles Ruhla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015020870211
This is an introduction to the ideas of indeterminacy that are central to much of modern physics and have overthrown the clockwork universe conceptions of earlier centuries.
Author : Walter Hehl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783658351120
Chance is uncanny to us. We thought it didn't exist, that God or a reasonable explanation was behind everything. But we know today: It exists. We know that much of what surrounds us and which we do not see through, nevertheless runs causally. Unlike what was thought in the days of the Enlightenment, chance is the rule around us rather than lawful order. The clouds are stochastic fractals, the waves on the sea are pure random machinery. The philosopher Charles Peirce recognized the fundamental importance of chance in precisely this sense, even before quantum and chaos theory, and gave the doctrine its name: Tychism. Without chance there would be nothing new, no life, no creativity, no history. This book looks at chance from the perspective of physics, computer science, and philosophy. It spans from antiquity to quantum physics and shows that chance is firmly built into the world and that it would not exist without chance. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Der Zufall in Physik, Informatik und Philosophie by Walter Hehl, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Author : David Bohm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134687084
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.
Author : Jan von Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521597358
In this book the author charts the history and development of modern probability theory.
Author : Nicolas Gisin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319054735
Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise exposition does not avoid the deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.
Author : Klaas Landsman,Ellen van Wolde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319263007
This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.
Author : W. Michael Dickson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521581271
The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Author : Andre? I?U?r?evich Khrennikov
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783267972
"Creating a rigorous mathematical theory of randomness is far from being complete, even in the classical case. Interrelation of Classical and Quantum Randomness rectifies this and introduces mathematical formalisms of classical and quantum probability and randomness with brief discussion of their interrelation and interpretational and foundational issues. The book presents the essentials of classical approaches to randomness, enlightens their successes and problems, and then proceeds to essentials of quantum randomness. Its wide-ranging and comprehensive scope makes it suitable for researchers in mathematical physics, probability and statistics at any level"--
Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107031463
This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
