Quantum mechanics at the crossroads : new perspectives from history, philosophy and physics /

Quantum mechanics at the crossroads : new perspectives from history, philosophy and physics / James Evans, Alan S. Thorndike, [eds]

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Quantum mechanics is a beautiful, strange and successful theory that originated in the 1920s. The theory, which Niels Bohr regarded as finished and complete, has in the last few decades rapidly developed in unexpected directions. An intense new focus on the stranger aspects of the theory, including...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Evans, James, 1948-, Thorndike, A. S. (Alan S.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Springer, ©2007.
Series:Frontiers collection.
Subjects:
Quantum theory.
Physics > Philosophy.

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505 0 0 |g Introduction :  |t contexts and challenges for quantum mechanics /  |r James Evans --  |t Max Planck's compromises on the way to and from the absolute /  |r J.L. Heilbron --  |t Atomic waves in private practice /  |r Bruce R. Wheaton --  |t A complementary opposition : Louis de Broglie and Werner Heisenberg /  |r Georges Lochak --  |t Schrödinger against particles and quantum jumps /  |r Michel Bitbol --  |t Aspects of nonlocality in quantum mechanics /  |r Abner Shimony --  |t Decoherence and the foundations of quantum mechanics /  |r Maximilian Schlosshauer, Arthur Fine --  |t What are consistent histories? /  |r Alan Thorndike --  |t Bose-Einstein condensation : identity crisis for indistinguishable particles /  |r Wolfgang Ketterle --  |t Quantum fluctuations of light : a modern perspective on wave/particle duality /  |r Howard Carmichael --  |t Quantum entanglement as a resource for communication /  |r William K. Wootters --  |t The three cases of Doctor von Neumann /  |r Roland Omnès. 
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