The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory
by Bohm,DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-11-12
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Bohm, one of the foremost scientific thinkers of our time, and Hiley present a completely original approach to quantum theory which will alter our understanding of the world and reveal that a century of modern physics needs to be reconsidered
Author Biography
The late David Bohm was Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, where, until 1983, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Ontological versus epistemological interpretations of the quantum theory | p. 13 |
| Causal interpretation of the one-body system | p. 28 |
| The many-body system | p. 56 |
| Transition processes considered as independent of observation | p. 73 |
| Measurement as a special case of quantum process | p. 97 |
| Nonlocality | p. 134 |
| The large scale world and the classical limit of the quantum theory | p. 160 |
| The role of statistics in the ontological interpretation of quantum theory | p. 181 |
| The ontological interpretation of the Pauli equation | p. 204 |
| The ontological interpretation of boson fields | p. 230 |
| On the relativistic invariance of our ontological interpretation | p. 271 |
| On the many-worlds interpretation | p. 296 |
| Extension of ontological theories beyond the domain of quantum mechanics | p. 319 |
| Quantum theory and the implicate order | p. 350 |
| Index | p. 393 |
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