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The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together with an introduction and a supplemental annotated bibliography, they discuss issues that make quantum theory, overarching principle of twentieth-century physics, appear to many to prefigure a new revolution in scienc



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Bohr And Einstein In Dialogue, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xv*Acknowledgments And Copyright Information, pg. xxi*I. Questions of Principle, pg. 1*II. Interpretations of The Act of Measurement, pg. 215*III. "Hidden Variables" Versus "Phenomenon" and Complementarity, pg. 351*IV. Field Measurements, pg. 463*V. Irreversibility And Quantum Theory, pg. 535*VI. Accuracy of Measurements: Quantum Limitations, pg. 697*Guide to some further Literature, pg. 769*Bibliography, pg. 787

Quantum Theory and Measurement

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    A Paperback by John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691613161, 978-0691613161
      ISBN10: 0691613168
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The forty-nine papers collected here illuminate the meaning of quantum theory as it is disclosed in the measurement process. Together with an introduction and a supplemental annotated bibliography, they discuss issues that make quantum theory, overarching principle of twentieth-century physics, appear to many to prefigure a new revolution in scienc



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Bohr And Einstein In Dialogue, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xv*Acknowledgments And Copyright Information, pg. xxi*I. Questions of Principle, pg. 1*II. Interpretations of The Act of Measurement, pg. 215*III. "Hidden Variables" Versus "Phenomenon" and Complementarity, pg. 351*IV. Field Measurements, pg. 463*V. Irreversibility And Quantum Theory, pg. 535*VI. Accuracy of Measurements: Quantum Limitations, pg. 697*Guide to some further Literature, pg. 769*Bibliography, pg. 787

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