The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Fundamental Exposition by Hugh Everett, III, with Papers by J. A. Wheeler, B. S. Dewitt, L. N. Cooper and D. Van Vechten, and N. Graham - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0691273669 ISBN 13 : 9780691273662

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A landmark book on the influential many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

In 1957, Hugh Everett proposed a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics--a view that eventually became known as the many-worlds interpretation. This book presents Everett's two landmark papers on the idea--"'Relative State' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics" and "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function"--as well as further discussion of the idea in papers from a number of other physicists: J. A. Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, L. N. Cooper and D. Van Vechten, and Neill Graham.

In his interpretation, Everett denies the existence of a separate classical realm and asserts the propriety of considering a state vector for the whole universe. Because this state vector never collapses, reality as a whole is rigorously deterministic. This reality, which is described jointly by the dynamical variables and the state vector, isn't the reality customarily perceived; rather, it's a reality composed of many worlds. By virtue of the temporal development of the dynamical variables, the state vector decomposes naturally into orthogonal vectors, reflecting a continual splitting of the universe into a multitude of mutually unobservable but equally real worlds, in each of which every good measurement has yielded a definite result, and in most of which the familiar statistical quantum laws hold.

Bryce S. DeWitt (1923-2004) was a prize-winning theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Neill Graham (1941-2015) was a physicist and writer.

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Bryce S. DeWitt (1923-2004) was a prize-winning theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Neill Graham (1941-2015) was a physicist and writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691273669
• ISBN 13: 9780691273662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Dewitt Bryce Seligman, Graham Neill
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