Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?Avshalom C. Elitzur, Shahar Dolev, Nancy Kolenda For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far beyond their classical limits, yet it has also produced some of the most difficult paradoxes known to the human mind. This book represents the combined efforts of sixteen of today's most eminent theoretical physicists to lay out future directions for quantum physics. The authors include Yakir Aharonov, Anton Zeilinger; the Nobel laureates Anthony Leggett and Geradus 't Hooft; Basil Hiley, Lee Smolin and Henry Stapp. Following a foreword by Roger Penrose, the individual chapters address questions such as quantum non-locality, the measurement problem, quantum insights into relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics, and the possible bearing of quantum phenomena on biology and consciousness. |
Contents
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Quantum Physics as a Science of Information | 46 |
ˇCaslav Brukner Anton Zeilinger 47 | 63 |
Is Quantum Mechanics the Whole Truth? | 83 |
Determinism Beneath Quantum Mechanics | 99 |
Relational Quantum Mechanics | 113 |
Towards a General Operational and Realistic Framework | 153 |
Department of Mathematics | 203 |
On HamiltonJacobi Theory | 239 |
J Butterfield | 272 |
Roundtable Discussion | 275 |
Quantum Phenomena Within a New Theory of Time | 325 |
EventBased Quantum Theory | 351 |
Quantum Phenomena of Biological Systems | 371 |
Quantum Theory of the Human Person | 397 |
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