Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance
Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume Two
Published on 4. December 2010
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Paperback/Softback
XI, 276 pages
978-90-481-4809-7 (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.
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Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1997
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XI, 276 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-4809-7 (9789048148097)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-2732-7
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Robert S. Cohen | M. Horne | J.J. Stachel
Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance
Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume Two
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06/1997
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
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.