World According To Quantum Mechanics The Why The Laws Of Physics Make Perfect Sense After All Second Edition

Author : Ulrich Mohrhoff,Manu Jaiswal
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813273719

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World According To Quantum Mechanics, The: Why The Laws Of Physics Make Perfect Sense After All (Second Edition) by Ulrich Mohrhoff,Manu Jaiswal Pdf

'The authors should be recognised for their efforts to present a mathematically rigorous introduction to Quantum Mechanics (QM) in a form that has broad appeal; there are not many introductory QM texts that would cover, for example, decoherence. I think many educators would appreciate this book, especially those interested in courses that combine science and philosophy.'Contemporary PhysicsApart from providing a lucid introduction to the mathematical formalism and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, we explain why the laws of physics have the form that they do. In addition, we present a new and unique look at the quantum world, steering clear of two common errors: the error of the ψ-ontologists, who reify a calculational tool; and the error of the anti-realists, for whom physical theories are simply devices for expressing regularities among observations.The new edition of this acclaimed text adds around 200 pages on a variety of topics, such as how the founders sought to make sense of quantum mechanics, Kant's theory of science, QBism, Everettian quantum mechanics, de Broglie-Bohm theory, environmental decoherence, contextuality, nonlocality, and the paradox of subjectivity — the curious fact that the world seems to exist twice, once for us, in our minds, and once by itself, independently of us.

Author : Ulrich Mohrhoff,Manu Jaiswal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9813273704

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The World According to Quantum Mechanics by Ulrich Mohrhoff,Manu Jaiswal Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814465847

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The World According to Quantum Mechanics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diederik Aerts,Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara,Christian de Ronde,Décio Krause
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813276901

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Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics by Diederik Aerts,Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara,Christian de Ronde,Décio Krause Pdf

This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most fascinating and important open questions in science: What is quantum mechanics talking about? Quantum theory is perhaps our best confirmed physical theory. However, despite its great empirical effectiveness and the subsequent technological developments that it gave rise to in the 20th century, from the interpretation of the periodic table of elements to CD players, holograms and quantum state teleportation, it stands even today without a universally accepted interpretation. The novelty of the book comes from the multiple viewpoints and subjects investigated by a group of researchers from Europe and North and South America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : MINN:31951P01148367S

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CERN Courier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Detlef Dürr,Dustin Lazarovici
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030400682

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Understanding Quantum Mechanics by Detlef Dürr,Dustin Lazarovici Pdf

This book discusses the physical and mathematical foundations of modern quantum mechanics and three realistic quantum theories that John Stuart Bell called "theories without observers" because they do not merely speak about measurements but develop an objective picture of the physical world. These are Bohmian mechanics, the GRW collapse theory, and the Many Worlds theory. The book is ideal to accompany or supplement a lecture course on quantum mechanics, but also suited for self-study, particularly for those who have completed such a course but are left puzzled by the question: "What does the mathematical formalism, which I have so laboriously learned and applied, actually tell us about nature?”

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226558387

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Beyond Weird by Philip Ball Pdf

“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.

Author : Kenneth W. Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674037146

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The Quantum World by Kenneth W. Ford Pdf

As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious. In order to make the book even more suitable for classroom use, the author, assisted by Diane Goldstein, has included a new section of Quantum Questions at the back of the book. A separate answer manual to these 300+ questions is available; visit The Quantum World website for ordering information. There is also a cloth edition of this book, which does not include the Quantum Questions included in this paperback edition.

Author : Simon Saunders,Jonathan Barrett,Adrian Kent,David Wallace
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614118

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Many Worlds? by Simon Saunders,Jonathan Barrett,Adrian Kent,David Wallace Pdf

What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, and on the need, or the aspiration, for a theory that unites micro- and macroworlds, at least in principle. But the further claim argued by some is that if you allow the Schrödinger equation unrestricted application, supposing the quantum state to be something physically real, then this universe is one of countlessly many others, constantly branching in time, all of which are real. The result is the many worlds theory, also known as the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. The contrary claim sees this picture of many worlds as in no sense inherent in quantum mechanics, even when the latter is allowed unrestricted scope and even given that the quantum state itself is something physically real. For this picture of branching worlds fails to make physical sense, let alone common sense, even on its own terms. The status of these worlds, what they are made of, is never adequately explained. Ordinary ideas about time and identity over time become hopelessly compromised. The concept of probability itself is brought into question. This picture of many branching worlds is inchoate, it is a vision, an error. There are realist alternatives to many worlds, some even that preserve the Schrödinger equation unchanged. Twenty specially written essays, accompanied by commentaries and discussions, examine these claims and counterclaims in depth. They focus first on the question of ontology, the existence of worlds (Part 1 and 2), second on the interpretation of probability (Parts 3 and 4), and third on alternatives or additions to many worlds (Parts 5 and 6). The introduction offers a helpful guide to the arguments for the Everett interpretation, particularly as they have been formulated in the last two decades.

Author : Jeffrey A. Barrett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191583254

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The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds by Jeffrey A. Barrett Pdf

Jeffrey Barrett presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers since the 1930s. The standard theory of quantum mechanics is in one sense the most successful physical theory ever, predicting the behaviour of the basic constituents of all physical things; no other theory has ever made such accurate empirical predictions. However, if one tries to understand the theory as providing a complete and accurate framework for the description of the behaviour of all physical interactions, it becomes evident that the theory is ambiguous, or even logically inconsistent. The most notable attempt to formulate the theory so as to deal with this problem, the quantum measurement problem, was initiated by Hugh Everett III in the 1950s. Barrett gives a careful and challenging examination and evaluation of the work of Everett and those who have followed him. His informal approach, minimizing technicality, will make the book accessible and illuminating for philosophers and physicists alike. Anyone interested in the interpretation of quantum mechanics should read it.

Author : Peter J. Riggs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048124039

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Quantum Causality by Peter J. Riggs Pdf

There is no sharp dividing line between the foundations of physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum mechanics. The debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. (We shall understand the unqualified term ‘quantum mechanics’ to mean the mathematical formalism, i. e. laws and rules by which empirical predictions and theoretical advances are made. ) There is a popular rendering of quantum mechanics which has been publicly endorsed by some well known physicists which says that quantum mechanics is not only 1 more weird than we imagine but is weirder than we can imagine. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics has produced some strange and counter-intuitive results, the case will be presented in this book that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe! The prevailing theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory endows a special status on measurement processes by requiring an intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e. g. a measuring apparatus). The placement of the observer (or proxy) is somewhat arbitrary which introduces a degree of subjectivity. Orthodox Quantum Theory only predicts probabilities for measured values of physical quantities. It is essentially an instrumental theory, i. e.

Author : Jacob Dunningham,Vlatko Vedral
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781911298557

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Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity by Jacob Dunningham,Vlatko Vedral Pdf

This book is based on the lecture courses taught by Dunningham and Vedral at the University of Leeds. The book contains all the necessary material for quantum physics and relativity in the first two years of a typical physics degree course. The choice of topics complies fully with the Institute of Physics guidelines, but the coverage also includes more interesting and up-to-date applications, such as Bose condensation and quantum teleportation. Contents:Old Quantum TheoryQuantum MechanicsApplications of Quantum MechanicsSchrödinger Equation in Three-DimensionsSpin and StatisticsAtoms, Molecules and LasersFormal Structure of Quantum MechanicsSecond Revolution: RelativityRelativistic Quantum MechanicsQuantum EntanglementSolutions Readership: Students and professionals.

Author : Stephen Wolfram
Publisher : Wolfram Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 1579550355

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A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics by Stephen Wolfram Pdf

The Wolfram Physics Project is a bold effort to find the fundamental theory of physics. It combines new ideas with the latest research in physics, mathematics and computation in the push to achieve this ultimate goal of science. Written with Stephen Wolfram's characteristic expository flair, this book provides a unique opportunity to learn about a historic initiative in science right as it is happening. A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics includes an accessible introduction to the project as well as core technical exposition and rich, never-before-seen visualizations.

Author : Paul C. W. Davies
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138464686

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Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition by Paul C. W. Davies Pdf

Quantum mechanics is the key to modern physics and chemistry, yet it is notoriously difficult to understand. This book is designed to overcome that obstacle. Clear and concise, it provides an easily readable introduction intended for science undergraduates with no previous knowledge of quantum theory, leading them through to the advanced topics usually encountered at the final year level. Although the subject matter is standard, novel techniques have been employed that considerably simplify the technical presentation. The authors use their extensive experience of teaching and popularizing science to explain the many difficult, abstract points of the subject in easily comprehensible language. Helpful examples and thorough sets of exercises are also given to enable students to master the subject.

Author : Jason Stephenson
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681274393

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Quantum Physics For Beginners by Jason Stephenson Pdf

We may have lived knowing that the world around us operates in a way as if we observe them to be. This knowledge of how the universe operates, based primarily of our observations, has enabled us to predict actions and motions and allowed us to build machines and equipments that have made our lives easier and more enjoyable. The field that allowed us to do that is classical physics. The world, however, is advancing and our knowledge of how things are expands over time. We have discovered in the last few decades that these sets of rules that we have devised can perfectly describe the large-scale world but cannot accurately define the behaviors of particles in the microscopic world. This necessitated another field to explain the different behavior in the microscopic world: quantum physics.