Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance

Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume Two

Robert S. Cohen, M. Horne, J.J. Stachel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

1997 | 1997 ed.
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7923-4453-7 (ISBN)

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Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as `passion at a distance': not active, but passive. The discussions gathered here are written by a truly remarkable cast of scientists and philosophers and shed new light on the most profound puzzles of our times.

Protective Measurements of Two-State Vectors.- What is the Referent of a Nonpure Quantum State?.- Classical and Quantum Physical Geometry.- Borromean Entanglement of the GHZ State.- Is the Quantum State (an) Observable?.- Aiming at Describing Empirical Reality.- An Interpretation which is Appropriate for Dynamical Reduction Theories.- Einstein—Podolsky—Rosen Reasoning in Nonlocality Theorems.- Space-time and Separability: Problems of Identity and Individuation in Fundamental Physics.- “Les recettes qui réussissent toujours”.- How to Ascertain the Values of Every Member of a Set of Observables that Cannot All Have Values.- Is Quantum Mechanics a Probabilistic Theory?.- The Decision Problem for Entanglement.- Bell Inequalities with Postselection.- Action and Passion at a Distance: an essay in honour of Professor Abney Shimony.- The Relativistic EPR Argument.- The History Approach Viewed by an External Observer.- Maximal Extension of an Impossibility Theorem concerning Quantum Measurement.- Feynman Paths and Quantum Entanglement: Is There any More to the Mystery?.- Bibliography of Abner Shimony.- Index of Names.- Table of Contents to Volume One.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.1997
Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 194
Reihe/Serie	Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance. Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume Two ; BD 2 \| 1.30
Zusatzinfo	XI, 276 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	0-7923-4453-7 / 0792344537
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-4453-7 / 9780792344537
Zustand	Neuware