Ebook: The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics — Historical Analysis and Open Questions: Lecce, 1993

In The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysisand Open Questions, leading Italian researchers involved in different aspects of the foundations and history of quantum mechanics are brought together in an interdisciplinary debate. The book therefore presents an invaluable overview of the state of Italian work in the field at this moment, and of the open problems that still exist in the foundations of the theory.
Audience: Physicists, logicians, mathematicians and epistemologists whose research concerns the historical analysis of quantum mechanics.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
On the Axioms of Probability....Pages 1-18
Three Quantum Theories of Measurement....Pages 19-34
Characterization and Deduction of Bell-Type Inequalities....Pages 35-41
The Search for a Quantum Reality....Pages 43-58
Macrorealism, Non-Invasivity and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 59-70
Planck’s Theory (1898–1906) and the Birth of Quantum Physics....Pages 71-84
An Analogue of the Tunnel Effect in Classical Electrodynamics....Pages 85-91
A Note on Light Dispersion Formula and the Development of Modern Physics....Pages 93-104
Quantum Mechanics, Objects and Objectivity....Pages 105-114
Toward a Logic of Unsharp Quantum Mechanics....Pages 115-126
Interpretative Remarks in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 127-138
Kuhn’s Interpretation of Boltzmann’s Statistical Heredity in Planck....Pages 139-146
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence as a Test of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 147-153
Exchangeability and Invariance: Classical Aspects of Quantum Correlation....Pages 155-166
Einstein’s Life-Long Doubts on the Physical Foundations of the General Relativity and Unified Field Theories....Pages 167-178
Physical Interpretations of the Lukasiewicz Quantum Logical Connectives....Pages 179-185
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Path Integral for Klein-Gordon Equation....Pages 187-200
Ontological Determinateness in Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity....Pages 201-211
Dualism and Incompleteness of Quantum Mechanics. Towards New Consistent Theories....Pages 213-227
Quantum Mechanics Reformulated by Means of Symmetries....Pages 229-237
Among Quantum Mechanics, Wave Optics, and Charged-Particle Beam Transport: Toward a Possible Unified Formal Description....Pages 239-254
Questioning Nonlocality: An Operational Critique to Bell’s Theorem....Pages 255-271
Bell’s Inequality for Trichotomic Observables....Pages 273-285
Quantum Mechanics and Nonlocality - The EPR Argument Reconsidered....Pages 287-304
Some Remarks on Non-Separability....Pages 305-314
Unsharp Orthoalgebras and Quantum MV Algebras....Pages 315-324
Introduction to Nelson Stochastic Mechanics as a Model for Quantum Mechanics....Pages 325-337
The Fermi-Dirac Statistics: A Simultaneous Discovery....Pages 339-355
Are there Sub-Quantum Trajectories? The Bohmian Interpretation of Quantum Theory....Pages 357-367
Algebraic Structures and Observations: Quantales for a Noncommutative Logic - Theoretic Approach to Quantum Mechanics....Pages 369-379
Hermeneutics as a Conceptual Model for an Ontological Evaluation of Quantum Theory....Pages 381-393
Random Path Quantization....Pages 395-405
The Loss of Individuality from Classical to Quantum Physics....Pages 407-416
The Mysteries of Quantum Theory: An Introductory Talk....Pages 417-426
On the Different Forms of Quantum Acausality....Pages 427-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-447
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