Physical Theory and its Interpretation
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub
Paperback Engels 2010 9789048172146Samenvatting
The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity. They detail central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics, Einstein's hole argument in general relativity, quantum mechanics and special relativity, quantum correlations, quantum logic, and quantum probability and information.
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Inhoudsopgave
Joseph Berkovitz and Meir Hemmo Why special relativity should not be a template for a reformulation of quantum mechanics
Harvey Brown and Chris Timpson On symmetries and conserved quantities in classical mechanics
Jeremy Butterfield On the notion of a physical theory of an incompletely knowable domain
William Demopoulos Markov properties and quantum experiments
Clark Glymour Quantum entropy
Stan Gudder Symmetry and the scope of scientific realism
Richard Healey Is it true or is it false; or somewhere in between? The logic of quantum mechanics
C.J. Isham Einstein’s hole argument and Weyl’s field-body relationalism
Herbert Korte Quantum mechanics as a theory of probability
Itamar Pitowsky John von Neumann on quantum correlations
Miklos Redei Kriske, Tupman and quantum logic: The quantum logician's conundrum
Allen Stairs Bibliography of the publications of Jeffrey Bub to 2006 Index
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