Ruth E. Kastner (Baltimore University of Maryland)

The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (TI), and breaks new ground in approaches to interpreting quantum theory. It provides robust refutations of various objections to TI and explicitly extends TI into the relativistic domain, providing new insight into its compatibility with relativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830447
• ISBN-10: 1108830447
• Artikelnr.: 63426137

Autorenporträt

Ruth E. Kastner is a Research Associate and member of the Foundations of Physics group at University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). She is the recipient of two National Science Foundation awards for research in time symmetry issues and the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, and she also received the 2021 Research Award from the Alumni Association of the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction: Quantum peculiarities
2. The map versus the territory
3. The original TI: Fundamentals
4. The new TI: Possibilist transactional interpretation
5. The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation
6. Challenges, replies, and applications
7. The metaphysics of possibility in RTI
8. RTI and spacetime
9. Epilogue. References. Index.