Philosophy and the Interpretation of Quantum Physics / Badis Ydri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ydri, Badis, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.

IOP Ebooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

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 non-commutative field theories; non-commutative and matrix field theory; quantum gravity as emergent geometry, emergent gravity and emergent cosmology from matrix models.

Summary:

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. This book provides oversight of many views on the interpretation of quantum physics and the wide philosophical debate that still embroils this subject.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. Introductory remarks

1.2. Organization of the book

1.3. References

2. The measurement problem and interpretations of quantum mechanics

2.1. The wave-particle duality and complementarity principle

2.2. Copenhagen interpretation

2.3. Entanglement entropy

2.4. EPR and Bell's theorem1

2.5. Decoherence and the measurement problem1

2.6. The many-worlds formalism

2.7. Bohmian mechanics

2.8. On observer-participancy or consciousness

2.9. On observer-determinacy or Orch OR

3. The information loss problem in quantum black holes

3.1. The Schwarzschild black hole

3.2. Hawking radiation and the information loss problem

3.3. Black hole complementarity

3.4. The firewall and monogamy

3.5. ER=EPR and the modification of quantum mechanics

3.6. The holographic gauge/gravity duality

3.7. The geometry/entanglement connection

3.8. Emergent time from entanglement verified experimentally

3.9. Other models of quantum gravity

4. Quantum dualism

4.1. The measurement problem as an information loss problem

4.2. The measurement problem and quantum entanglement

4.3. Quantum dualism

5. Black hole interpretation of quantum mechanics

5.1. On the complementarity between Copenhagen and many-worlds observers

5.2. On the black hole interpretation of quantum mechanics

5.3. On observers in quantum mechanics and the evaporation of black holes

6. On quantum logic and quantum metaphysics

6.1. Boolean algebras

6.2. The logical structure of the quantum theory

6.3. Hilbert lattices

6.4. Gleason and the Kochen-Specker theorems

6.5. CHSH quantum game and free will theorem

7. Interpretation of the 'Copenhagen interpretation'

7.1. Postulates of quantum mechanics

7.2. From quantum fundamentalism to semi-classical fundamentalism

7.3. The uncertainty/indeterminacy principle

7.4. The complementarity principle

7.5. The correspondence principle

7.6. The philosophy of Bohr

7.7. An executive summary

8. Neutral monism, perspectivism and quantum dualism

8.1. The anthropic principle

8.2. Quantum dualism as an informational neutral monism

8.3. The collapse of the wave function and the measurement problem

8.4. Quantum perspectivism and quantum logic

8.5. Physicalism, naturalistic dualism and neutral monism

8.6. Quantum dualism, Wigner's friend and solipsism

8.7. Simulation and matrix hypotheses

8.8. The arrow of time and the Boltzmann-Schuetz hypothesis

8.9. Time, free will and the quantum past

8.10. The mind/body problem, synchronicity and Bell's theorem

8.11. Conclusion.

Notes:

"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 8, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750325998

0750325992

9780750326001

075032600X

OCLC:

1285004527