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Author : Mary Bell,Shan Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107104341
A collaboration between distinguished physicists and philosophers of physics, this important anthology surveys the deep implications of Bell's nonlocality theorem.
Author : Tomasz F. Bigaj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110323306
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition that purports to exclude the existence of causal interactions between spatially separated parts of a system. They also make it possible to speak consistently about alternative measuring settings, and to explicate what is meant by quantum property attributions. The book develops the possible-world semantics of quantum counterfactuals using David Lewis’s famous approach as a starting point but modifying it significantly in order to achieve compatibility with the demands of the special theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics. There have been several attempts to use counterfactual semantics to strengthen Bell’s theorem and its cognates such as the GHZ and Hardy theorems. These are critically evaluated in the book. Finally, a counterfactual reconstruction of the EPR argument and Bell’s theorem is proposed that sheds a new light on their philosophical consequences regarding the relations between realism and local causation.
Author : Tomasz F. Bigaj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Quantum entanglement
ISBN : 3110322862
This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition that purports to exclude the existence of causal interactions between spatially separated parts of a system. They also make it possible to speak consistently about alternative measuring settings, and to explicate what is meant by quantum property attributions. The book develops the possible-world semantics of quantum counterfactuals using David Lewis s famous approach as a starting point but modifying it significantly in order to achieve compatibility with the demands of the special theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics. There have been several attempts to use counterfactual semantics to strengthen Bell s theorem and its cognates such as the GHZ and Hardy theorems. These are critically evaluated in the book. Finally, a counterfactual reconstruction of the EPR argument and Bell s theorem is proposed that sheds a new light on their philosophical consequences regarding the relations between realism and local causation."
Author : George Musser
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374713553
Long-listed for the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “An important book that provides insight into key new developments in our understanding of the nature of space, time and the universe. It will repay careful study.” —John Gribbin, The Wall Street Journal “An endlessly surprising foray into the current mother of physics' many knotty mysteries, the solving of which may unveil the weirdness of quantum particles, black holes, and the essential unity of nature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality-the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. It appears to be almost magical. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, describing it as "spooky action at a distance." More recently, the mystery has deepened as other forms of nonlocality have been uncovered. This strange occurrence, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions, and even the workings of gravity, holds the potential to undermine our most basic understandings of physical reality. If space isn't what we thought it was, then what is it? In Spooky Action at a Distance, George Musser sets out to answer that question, offering a provocative exploration of nonlocality and a celebration of the scientists who are trying to explain it. Musser guides us on an epic journey into the lives of experimental physicists observing particles acting in tandem, astronomers finding galaxies that look statistically identical, and cosmologists hoping to unravel the paradoxes surrounding the big bang. He traces the often contentious debates over nonlocality through major discoveries and disruptions of the twentieth century and shows how scientists faced with the same undisputed experimental evidence develop wildly different explanations for that evidence. Their conclusions challenge our understanding of not only space and time but also the origins of the universe-and they suggest a new grand unified theory of physics. Delightfully readable, Spooky Action at a Distance is a mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about reality.
Author : W. Michael Dickson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Peter J. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190618797
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological pictures. Rather, quantum mechanics is essential to the metaphysician because it reshapes standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new metaphysical possibilities. Even if quantum mechanics provides few clear answers, there are good reasons to think that any adequate understanding of the quantum world will result in a radical reshaping of our classical world-view in some way or other. Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a clear and accessible way. The theory and its various interpretations are presented with a minimum of technicality. The consequences of these interpretations for metaphysical debates concerning realism, indeterminacy, causation, determinism, holism, and individuality (among other topics) are explored in detail, stressing the novel form that the debates take given the empirical facts in the quantum domain. While quantum mechanics may not deliver unconditional pronouncements on these issues, the range of possibilities consistent with our knowledge of the empirical world is relatively small-and each possibility is metaphysically revisionary in some way. This book will appeal to researchers, students, and anybody else interested in how science informs our world-view.
Author : Garrison C. Gibson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105468575
Global Networks of Power captures an image of social and political substance of 2011 to early 2012. The U.S. Government has made Orwellian hate crimes legislation a general lever to intervene in politically incorrect crimes upon special classes, given the military the right to exfiltrate U.S. citizens without legal review to unspecified foreign torture facilities where they may disappear forever and has forced corporate medical insurance upon all citizens and sought to force all religious organizations to provide birth control paraphernalia to employees through insurers. Following the attack on the rich in the World Trade Center in 2001 American democracy has been progressively stifled and wealth concentrated with onerous public debt building up along with high unemployment. The need for ecological economic reforms are ignored and the government cannot even reform capitalism to benefit American individualism. Gary C. Gibson writes of contemporary affairs from his own point of view.
Author : Gregg Jaeger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642376290
This monograph identifies the essential characteristics of the objects described by current quantum theory and considers their relationship to space-time. In the process, it explicates the senses in which quantum objects may be consistently considered to have parts of which they may be composed or into which they may be decomposed. The book also demonstrates the degree to which reduction is possible in quantum mechanics, showing it to be related to the objective indefiniteness of quantum properties and the strong non-local correlations that can occur between the physical quantities of quantum subsystems. Careful attention is paid to the relationships among such property correlations, physical causation, probability, and symmetry in quantum theory. In this way, the text identifies and clarifies the conceptual grounds underlying the unique nature of many quantum phenomena.
Author : Mathias Frisch
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195172157
Electrodynamics has largely been ignored by philosophers of science due to what Mathias Frisch says is a mistaken view that it is conceptually unproblematic. Part of the goal of this book is to show that classical physics, while successful in describing phenomena, has some very interesting conceptual problems worth discussing. The other goal of the book is to argue that the theory electrodynamics, a core theory of modern physics and one that's widely held, leaves out some important aspects of scientific theorizing, namely that the notion that consistency is over-valued, and that an inconsistent theory can still be successful.
Author : Tim Maudlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444331264
The third edition of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity has been carefully updated to reflect significant developments, including a new chapter covering important recent work in the foundations of physics. A new edition of the premier philosophical study of Bell’s Theorem and its implication for the relativistic account of space and time Discusses Roderich Tumiulka’s explicit, relativistic theory that can reproduce the quantum mechanical violation of Bell’s inequality. Discusses the "Free Will Theorem" of John Conway and Simon Kochen Introduces philosophers to the relevant physics and demonstrates how philosophical analysis can help inform physics
Author : Allén Sture
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110866858
Possible worlds in humanities, arts, and sciences : proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65.
Author : J. N. Goldberg
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812792938
This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory. These problems lie on the border between general relativity and quantum physics, including quantum gravity.
Author : P G Bergmann,V de Sabbata,J N Goldberg
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814493147
This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory. These problems lie on the border between general relativity and quantum physics, including quantum gravity. Contents:Bohr's and Mach's Conceptions of Non-locality in Gravitation (H H v Borzeszkowski & H-J Treder)Non-locality Versus Locality: The Epistemological Background of the Einstein–Bohr Debate (H-H v Borzeszkowski & R Wahsner)Global Energy and Non-local Energy (J N Goldberg)Aspects of Physical Non-locality (A Komar)The EPR Argument and Quantum Non-locality (B K Datta et al.)Non-commuting Geometry and Spin Fluctuations (V de Sabbata et al.)Noncommutative Geometry for Pedestrians (J Madore)Some Topics and Trials on the Theory of Non-local Fields — Theory of Fields in Finsler Spaces and Fluctuations of Space–Time (Y Takano)Quantum Gravity Phenomenology (D V Nanopoulos)Hawking Radiation in String Theory and the String Phase of Black Holes (M R Medrano & N Sanchez)Non-locality, Entanglement and Quantum Computers (Z-L Zhang & Z-J Zhang) Readership: Cosmologists, astronomers, astrophysicists, high energy physicists and experimental physicists. Keywords:Nonlocality;Gravitation;Quantum Theory;General Relativity;Quantum Gravity
Author : Alyssa Ney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190097721
If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of material objects? Nearly a century after the development of quantum theories, a consensus has yet to emerge. Many still wonder about what these theories may be telling us about ourselves and our place in the universe. Alyssa Ney here defends and develops a particular framework for understanding the world as it is described by quantum theories. This framework was initially suggested by Schrödinger in the 1920's and was further defended as an account of reality by two philosophers of physics in the 1990's who described it as a necessary point of view for those who argue that quantum theories are correct representations of our world. This framework is called wave function realism, which interprets quantum theories such that its central object is the quantum wave function, interpreted as a field on an extremely high-dimension space. This theory views us, and all objects, as ultimately constituted out of the wave function, and though we seem to occupy three dimensions, the fundamental spatial framework of quantum worlds consists of many more dimensions. Alyssa Ney argues for and advances this view, with the goal of making a case for how this theory how it might be applied to more other relativistic quantum theories, including quantum field theories. Her conclusion develops an account of how we as human beings might ultimately see ourselves and the objects around us as constituted out of the wave function.
Author : Tim Maudlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470752159
Modern physics was born from two great revolutions: relativity and the quantum theory. Relativity imposed a locality constraint on physical theories: since nothing can go faster than light, very distant events cannot influence one another. Only in the last few decades has it become clear that the quantum theory violates this constraint. The work of J.S. Bell has demonstrated that no local theory can return the predictions of quantum theory. Thus it would seem that the central pillars of modern physics are contradictory.