Reality without realism : matter, thought, and technology in quantum physics / Arkady Plotnitsky.
Plotnitsky, Arkady.
2021
QC174.12 .P56 2021
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Title Reality without realism : matter, thought, and technology in quantum physics / Arkady Plotnitsky.
Author Plotnitsky, Arkady.
ISBN 9783030845780 electronic book
3030845788 electronic book
303084577X
9783030845773
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84578-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-84578-0 doi
Call Number QC174.12 .P56 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.12
Summary This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory. The argument of the book is based on its title concept, reality without realism (RWR), and in the corresponding view, the RWR view, of quantum theory. The book considers, from this perspective, the thinking of Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac, with the aim of bringing together the philosophy and history of quantum theory. With quantum theory, the book argues, the architecture of thought in theoretical physics was radically changed by the irreducible role of experimental technology in the constitution of physical phenomena, accordingly, no longer defined independently by matter alone, as they were in classical physics or relativity. Or so it appeared. For, quantum theory, the book further argues, made us realize that experimental technology, beginning with that of our bodies, irreducibly shapes all physical phenomena, and thus makes us rethink the relationships among matter, thought, and technology in all of physics.
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5 Niels Bohr and the Character of Physical Law: "A Radical Revision of Our Attitude Toward the Problem of Physical Reality"
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7 "Something Happened": The Real and the Virtual in Elementary Particle Physics
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