Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum PhilosophyJohn Bell FRS was one of the leading expositors and interpreters of modern quantum theory. He is particularly famous for his discovery of the crucial difference between the predictions of conventional quantum mechanics and the implications of local causality, a concept insisted on by Einstein. John Bell's work has played a major role in developing our current understanding of the profound nature of quantum concepts and of the fundamental limitations they impose on the applicability of the classical ideas of space, time and locality. This book includes all of John Bell's published and unpublished papers on the conceptual and philosophical problems of quantum mechanics, including two papers that appeared after the first edition was published. All the papers have been reset, the references put in order and minor corrections made. The book includes a short Preface written by the author for the first edition, and also an introduction by Alain Aspect that puts into context John Bell's enormous contribution to the quantum philosophy debate. This collection will be of interest to graduate students and research workers in physics with an interest in the conceptual foundations of quantum theory. It will also be of value to philosophers of science working in this area. -- 4ème de couverture. |
Contents
On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics | 1 |
On the EinsteinPodolskyRosen paradox | 14 |
The moral aspect of quantum mechanics | 22 |
Introduction to the hiddenvariable question | 29 |
Subject and object | 40 |
On wave packet reduction in the ColemanHepp model | 45 |
The theory of local beables | 52 |
Locality in quantum mechanics reply to critics | 63 |
de BroglieBohm delayedchoice doubleslit experiment and density matrix | 111 |
Quantum mechanics for cosmologists | 117 |
Bertlmanns socks and the nature of reality | 139 |
On the impossible pilot wave | 159 |
Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics | 169 |
Beables for quantum field theory | 173 |
Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics | 181 |
EPR correlations and EPW distributions | 196 |
How to teach special relativity | 67 |
EinsteinPodolskyRosen experiments | 81 |
The measurement theory of Everett and de Brogttes pilot wave | 93 |
Free variables and local causality | 100 |
Atomiccascade photons and quantummechanical nonlocality | 105 |
Are there quantum jumps? | 201 |
Against measurement | 213 |
La nouvelle cuisine | 232 |
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