Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy
Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work, which has had momentous significance for our unde
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Fundamental Theories of Physics An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application
Editor: ALWYN VAN DER MERWE, University of Denver, U.S.A.
Editorial Advisory Board: GIANCARLO GHIRARDI, University of Trieste, Italy LAWRENCE P. HORWITZ, Tel-Aviv University, Israel BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON, University of Cambridge, U.K. CLIVE KILMISTER, University of London, U.K. PEKKA J. LAHTI, University of Turku, Finland FRANCO SELLERI, Università di Bara, Italy TONY SUDBERY, University of York, U.K. HANS-JÜRGEN TREDER, Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
Volume 152
Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy by
Arkady Plotnitsky Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Table of Contents Preface..............................................................................................................................vii Acknowledgements .........................................................................................................xiii Introduction: Complementarity, Quantum Mechanics, and Interpretation........................1 Chapter 1. Complementarity, Epistemology, and Quantum Mechanics as an Information Theory ..........................................................................................9 1. The No-Continuum Hypothesis .......................................................................9 2. Quantum Epistemology and Quantum Information.......................................13 3. From Heisenberg’s New Kinematics to Bohr’s Complementarity ................17 4. Complementarity, Phenomena, and the Double-Slit Experiment ..................28 5. From Bohr’s Atoms to Qubits........................................................................34 6. Bohr’s Epistemology and Decoherence .........................................................40 7. The Epistemological Lesson of Quantum Mechanics....................................44 Chapter 2. Complementarity, Quantum Variables, and the Relationships between Mathematics and Physics ...............................................................................49 1. Translations: From Classical to Quantum Mechanics ...................................49 2. Transformations: From Geometry to Algeb
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