The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 December 1999
- ISBN 9780198238386
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 224x145x22 mm
- Weight 496 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
Jeffrey Barrett presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers since the 1930s. Quantum mechanics is in one sense the most successful physical theory ever, accurately predicting the behaviour of the basic constituents of matter. But it has an apparent ambiguity or inconsistency at its heart; Barrett gives a careful, clear, and challenging evaluation of attempts to deal with this problem.
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Jeffrey Barrett presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers since the 1930s. The standard theory of quantum mechanics is in one sense the most successful physical theory ever, predicting the behaviour of the basic constituents of all physical things; no other theory has ever made such accurate empirical predictions. However, if one tries to understand the theory as providing a complete and accurate framework for the description of the behaviour of all physical interactions, it becomes evident that the theory is ambiguous, or even logically inconsistent. The most notable attempt to formulate the theory so as to deal with this problem, the quantum measurement problem, was initiated by Hugh Everett III in the 1950s. Barrett gives a careful and challenging examination and evaluation of the work of Everett and those who have followed him. His informal approach, minimizing technicality, will make the book accessible and illuminating for philosophers and physicists alike. Anyone interested in the interpretation of quantum mechanics should read it.
Well written.
Table of Contents:
A Brief Introduction
The Standard Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
The Theory of the Universal Wave Function
The Bare Theory and Determinate Experience
Selecting a Branch
Many Worlds
Many Minds
Many Histories
The Determinate-Experience Problem
Appendices
References
Index
