Quantum Theory and Measurement / / ed. by John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Wheeler, John Archibald,; Zurek, Wojciech Hubert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in Physics ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (842 p.)

The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together with an introduction and a supplemental annotated bibliography, they discuss issues that make quantum theory, overarching principle of twentieth-century physics, appear to many to prefigure a new revolution in science.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Bohr And Einstein In Dialogue -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments And Copyright Information -- I. Questions of Principle -- II. Interpretations of The Act of Measurement -- III. "Hidden Variables" Versus "Phenomenon" and Complementarity -- IV. Field Measurements -- V. Irreversibility And Quantum Theory -- VI. Accuracy of Measurements: Quantum Limitations -- Guide to some further Literature -- Bibliography