Quantum Mechanics and Experience

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This lively account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is at once elementary and deeply challenging. It is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics and, at the same time, a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of quantum physics, a number of them made by the author himself.

Author(s): David Z Albert; Professor of Philosophy David Z Albert
Year: 1993

Language: English
Pages: 206

Contents
Preface
1. Superposition
2. The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard Way of Thinking about It
3. Nonlocality
4. The Measurement Problem
5. The Collapse of the Wave Function
6. The Dynamics by Itself
7. Bohm's Theory
8. Self-Measurement
Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations
Bibliography
Index