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Quantum Causality: Conceptual Issues in the Causal Theory of Quantum Mechanics (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (23)) by Peter J Riggs; David Papineau; R R Yeo; Nicholas Rasmussen; John Schuster; Steven Gaukroger; Steven R D French; Rachel Ankeny is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is a treatise devoted to the foundations of quantum physics and the role that causality plays in the microscopic world governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. There is no sharp dividing line between physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum physics where debate on its interpretation and the status of the various entities postulated has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics produces some strange and counter-intuitive results, it is argued in Quantum Causality that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe. The dominant theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory is a ‘theoretical tool’ for making predictions for the possible results of experiments on quantum systems and requires the intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e.g. a measuring apparatus) in order to produce predictions. Orthodox Quantum Theory does away with the notion of causality and denies the existence of an underlying quantum realm. The

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Author

Peter J Riggs; David Papineau; R R Yeo; Nicholas Rasmussen; John Schuster; Steven Gaukroger; Steven R D French; Rachel Ankeny

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048184972

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Physics