Badis Ydri

Philosophy and the Interpretation of Quantum Physics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest scientific breakthrough ever achieved. It brought with it a seismic paradigm shift in our way of thinking about nature, and at the same time, it underpins most of the dramatic technological innovations of the modern era, as well as providing a profound lasting impact on our metaphysical conception of reality. The world which is described faithfully from experimental evidence by quantum mechanics is non-deterministic, non-local and it does not seem to exist without observation; the conscious observer on some accounts is implicitly or explicitly crucial to observation. Any interpretation of quantum mechanics is an attempt to explain how the mathematical description corresponds to reality. Although quantum mechanics has held up to rigorous experimental testing, there exist several contending schools of thought over their interpretation. Despite a century of debate and experiment, no consensus has been reached amongst physicists and philosophers of physics concerning which interpretation best represents reality. Does quantum mechanics provide a fuzzy picture of a clear reality or is the fuzziness inherent in reality and quantum mechanics is only providing a clear picture of that fuzziness?

This book provides oversight of many views on the interpretation of quantum physics and the wide philosophical debate that still embroils this subject. Following an introduction to quantum mechanics according to the Copenhagen interpretation and the many-worlds formalism, the reader is taken on a journey exploring the many physical results and theorems of quantum philosophy with an emphasis on quantum entanglement and Bell's theorem before proceeding to explore Hawking radiation and the corresponding information loss problem and its unitary resolution and the connection between spacetime geometry and quantum entanglement. The book then explores the issues of time and consciousness as both are intimately related to the foundation of quantum mechanics and concludes with a synthesis based on quantum dualism, i.e. the fact that the Copenhagen interpretation provides the local view of reality whereas the many-worlds formalism provides the manifold view and the two views are complementary, not contradictory.

The breadth of coverage and renewed interest surrounding the interpretation of quantum physics will make the book essential reading for physicists working in or interested in the field of quantum physics and quantum reality, as well as those studying philosophy of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750326001
• Artikelnr.: 62873137

Autorenporträt

Badis Ydri, currently a professor of theoretical particle physics, teaching at the Institute of Physics, Badji Mokhtar Annaba University, Algeria, received his PhD from Syracuse University, New York, USA and in 2011 his Habilitation from Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria. Professor Ydri is also a research associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, and a regular ICTP associate at the Abdus Salam Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. His post-doctoral experience comprises a Marie Curie fellowship at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, and a Hamilton fellowship at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland. His current research directions include: the gauge/gravity duality; the renormalization group method in matrix and noncommutative field theories; non-commutative and matrix field theory; quantum gravity as emergent geometry, emergent gravity and emergent cosmology from matrix models.