The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum Interpretation and Foundations
This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics
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The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum Interpretation and Foundations
The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum
Gennaro Auletta
The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum Interpretation and Foundations
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Gennaro Auletta University of Cassino and Southern Lazio Cassino, Frosinone, Italy Pontifical Gregorian University Rome, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-16648-9 ISBN 978-3-030-16649-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16649-6
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Preface
The starting point of this book was my tutorship for a doctoral dissertation in the year 2014 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The now Ph.D. Father Lluc Torcal wrote a thesis titled In Search of an Ontology that Underlies Quantum Mechanics: Which Vision of the Physical World Could We Get from Quantum Mechanics? It was essentially a philosophical assessment of the main problems and solutions in interpreting quantum theory with a look at the proposals that I have developed in my own research across more than 20 years starting from the publication of Foundations and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Critical– Historical Analysis of the Problems and a Synthesis of the Results, published in 2000 by World Scientific. At that time, I spent a summer in the monastery of Poblet working together with Father Torcal. Since this gave us the opportunity for examining many crucial points in interpreting quantum mechanics, after the discussion of the mentioned dissertation, both of us envisaged the project of making a book on this subject. However, when I started to work on it, I became soon aware that the issue at the stake went much further than a simple philosophical assessment. Moreover, Fathe
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