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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Quantum World
    sub title: Philosophical Debates on Quantum Physics
  name:
    name part: d'Espagnat, Bernard.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zwirn, Hervé.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 299 p. 11 illus. online resource.
  abstract: In this largely nontechnical book, eminent physicists and philosophers address the philosophical impact of recent advances in quantum physics. These are shown to shed new light on profound questions about realism, determinism, causality or locality. The participants contribute in the spirit of an open and honest discussion, reminiscent of the time when science and philosophy were inseparable. After the editors’ introduction, the next chapter reveals the strangeness of quantum mechanics and the subsequent discussions examine our notion of reality. The spotlight is then turned to the topic of decoherence. Bohm’s theory is critically examined in two chapters, and the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics is likewise described and discussed. The penultimate chapter presents a proposal for resolving the measurement problem, and finally the topic of loop quantum gravity is presented by one of its founding fathers, Carlo Rovelli. The original presentations and discussions on which this volume is based took place under the auspices of the French “Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques”. The book will appeal to everybody interested in knowing how our description of the world is impacted by the results of the most powerful and successful theory that physicists have ever built.
  table of contents: Introduction -- A Journey through the Quantum World (Bernard d’Espagnat & Hervé Zwirn) -- The inescapable strangeness of the quantum world (Édouard Brézin) -- Quantum physics appearance and reality, Exchange of views -- Experimental aspects of decoherence (Jean-Michel Raimond) -- Theoretical aspects of decoherence, Exchange of views -- The Pilot Wave Theory of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm (Franck Laloë) -- The Pilot Wave Theory: problems and difficulties (Franck Laloë) -- Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and the EPR paradox (Matteo Smerlak) -- Exchange of views on the relational interpretation and Bell -- The theory of measurement (Roger Balian) -- The loop quantum gravity (Carlo Rovelli).
  note: edited by Bernard d'Espagnat, Hervé Zwirn.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Physics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783319554204
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55420-4
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    record creation date: 170508
    record change date: 20170508153458.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-55420-4