A Guess at the Riddle : : Essays on the Physical Underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics / / David Z Albert.
From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes an original and exhilarating attempt at making sense of the strange laws of quantum mechanics.A century ago, a brilliant circle of physicists around Niels Bohr argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical pict...
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Albert, David Z, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Guess at the Riddle : Essays on the Physical Underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics / David Z Albert. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes an original and exhilarating attempt at making sense of the strange laws of quantum mechanics.A century ago, a brilliant circle of physicists around Niels Bohr argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner workings of the atom-the kind of picture that had previously been an ideal of classical physics-was doomed to fail. Today, there is widespread agreement among philosophers and physicists that those arguments were wrong. However, the question of what that picture might look like, and how it might fit into a comprehensive picture of physical reality, remains unsettled.In A Guess at the Riddle, philosopher David Z Albert argues that the distinctively strange features of quantum mechanics begin to make sense once we conceive of the wave function, vibrating and evolving in high-dimensional space, as the concrete, fundamental physical "stuff" of the universe. Starting with simple mechanical models, Albert methodically constructs the defining features of quantum mechanics from scratch. He shows how the entire history of our familiar, three-dimensional universe can be discerned in the wave function's intricate pattern of ripples and whorls. A major new work in the foundations of physics, A Guess at the Riddle is poised to transform our understanding of the basic architecture of the universe. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) Physical laws. Physics Philosophy. Quantum theory. Reality. Space. Wave functions. PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics. bisacsh bell's theorem. bohmian mechanics. classical. configuration space. electrodynamics. epr paradox. functionalism. fundamentality. general relativity. grounding. grw. hamiltonian. many worlds Interpretation. newtonian. non locality. primitive ontology. rutherford. special. superposition. universe. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749700 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674294837 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674294837/original |
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