Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy

by J. S. Bell , Introduction by Alain Aspect

• ISBN13: 9780521818629
• ISBN10: 0521818621
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

John Bell, FRS was one of the leading expositors and interpreters of modern quantum theory. He is particularly famous for his discovery of the crucial difference between the predictions of conventional quantum mechanics and the implications of local causality, a concept insisted on by Einstein. John Bell's work played a major role in the development of our current understanding of the profound nature of quantum concepts and of the fundamental limitations they impose on the applicability of the classical ideas of space, time and locality. This book includes all of John Bell's published and unpublished papers on the conceptual and philosophical problems of quantum mechanics, including two papers that appeared after the first edition was published. The book includes a short Preface written by the author for the first edition, and also an introduction by Alain Aspect that puts into context John Bell's enormous contribution to the quantum philosophy debate.

Table of Contents

List of papers on quantum philosophy by J. S. Bell

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Alain Aspect

1. On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics

2. On the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox

3. The moral aspects of quantum mechanics

4. Introduction to the hidden-variable question

5. Subject and object

6. On wave packet reduction in the Coleman-Hepp model

7. The theory of local beables

8. Locality in quantum mechanics: reply to critics

9. How to teach special relativity

10. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments

11. The measurement theory of Everett and de Broglie's pilot wave

12. Free variables and local causality

13. Atomic-cascade photons and quantum-mechanical nonlocality

14. de Broglie-Bohm delayed choice double-slit experiments and density matrix

15. Quantum mechanics for cosmologists

16. Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality

17. On the impossible pilot wave

18. Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics

19. Beables for quantum field theory

20. Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics

21. EPR correlations and EPR distributions

22. Are there quantum jumps?

23. Against 'measurement'

24. La Nouvelle cuisine.