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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971828903321

Autore

Albert David Z

Titolo

Quantum mechanics and experience / / David Z Albert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1992

ISBN

9780674020146

0674020146

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 206 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

530.12

Soggetti

Physical measurements

Quantum theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Superposition -- 2. The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard Way of Thinking about It -- 3. Nonlocality -- 4. The Measurement Problem -- 5. The Collapse of the Wave Function -- 6. The Dynamics by Itself -- 7. Bohm's Theory -- 8. Self-Measurement -- Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics, and provides a rigorous discussion of important recent advances in the understanding of quantum physics, including theories put forward by the author himself.