Quantum mechanics : historical contingency and the Copenhagen hegemony
著者
書誌事項
Quantum mechanics : historical contingency and the Copenhagen hegemony
（Science and its conceptual foundations）
University of Chicago Press, c1994
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- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-300) and indexes
内容説明・目次
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: hbk ISBN 9780226132020
内容説明
Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent, yet conceptually incompatible, views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and its position among competing views. Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative interpretation, rooted in the work of Louis de Broglie in the early 1920s and reformulated and extended by David Bohm in the 1950s, equally well explains the observational data. Through a detailed historical and sociological study of the physicists who developed different theories of quantum mechanics, the debates within and between opposing camps, and the receptions given to each theory, Cushing shows that despite the preeminence of the Copenhagen view, the Bohm interpretation cannot be ignored. Cushing contends that the Copenhagen interpretation became widely accepted not because it is a better explanation of subatomic phenomena than Bohm's, but because it happened to appear first.
Focusing on the philosophical, social and cultural forces that shaped one of the most important developments in modern physics, this book examines the role that timing can play in the establishment of theory and explanation.
目次
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Theory Construction and Selection 2: Formalism, Interpretation, and Understanding 3: Standard Quantum Theory 4: Bohm's Quantum Theory 5: Alternative Interpretations: An Illustration 6: Opposing Commitments, Opposing Schools 7: Competition and Forging Copenhagen 8: Early Attempts at Causal Theories: A Stillborn Program 9: The Fate of Bohm's Program 10: An Alternative Scenario? 11: Lessons Notes References Author Index Subject Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226132044
内容説明
Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent, yet conceptually incompatible, views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and its position among competing views. Since the late 1920s, the theory formulated by Niels Bohr and his colleagues at Copenhagen has been the dominant interpretation of quantum mechanics. Yet an alternative interpretation, rooted in the work of Louis de Broglie in the early 1920s and reformulated and extended by David Bohm in the 1950s, equally well explains the observational data. Through a detailed historical and sociological study of the physicists who developed different theories of quantum mechanics, the debates within and between opposing camps, and the receptions given to each theory, Cushing shows that despite the preeminence of the Copenhagen view, the Bohm interpretation cannot be ignored. Cushing contends that the Copenhagen interpretation became widely accepted not because it is a better explanation of subatomic phenomena than Bohm's, but because it happened to appear first.
Focusing on the philosophical, social and cultural forces that shaped one of the most important developments in modern physics, this book examines the role that timing can play in the establishment of theory and explanation.
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