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Early in this century\ the arrival of quantum mechanics resulted in a split in the world views of physicists[ In classical mechanics the apparent correspondence between mathematical models and their physical counterparts was often so close that little distinction needed to be made between the two[ In contrast\ quantum mechanics provides a beautifully accurate description of Nature\ but itself yields little explanation of microscopic phenomena[ An understanding of the mathematics of quantum mechanics leads one to an ability to calculate and predict\ but few would argue that it a}ords a deep understanding of the phenomena being described[ In the quantum world\ the Heisenberg uncertainty relations seem to put a fundamental limit on what is observable\ and until recently\ strongly represented the conceptual barrier separating the quantum and classical worlds[ However\ it may be shown that by extending classical mechanics to allow Fractal traject! ories\ the uncertainty relations and some of the dynamical equations of quantum mechanics appear in this extended classical domain[ This shift of the boundary between the quantum and classical world will be discussed at a general level and ill

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Author

G.N. Ord

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0960-0779)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)