The world in the wave function : a metaphysics for quantum physics /
Ney, Alyssa
The world in the wave function : a metaphysics for quantum physics / by Alyssa Ney. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 - 1 online resource (xiv, 269, pages) : color illustrations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
1. A preliminary case for wave function realism -- 2.The argument from entanglement -- 3 The virtues of separability and locality -- 4. Wave function realism in a relativistic setting -- 5. Must an ontology for quantum theories contain local beables? -- 6. The causal role of macroscopic objects -- 7. Finding the macroworld
What are the ontological implications of quantum theories, that is, what do they tell us about the fundamental objects that make up our world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of the basic constitution of material objects and ourselves? Is there fundamental quantum nonlocality? This book articulates several rival approaches to answering these questions, ultimately defending the wave function realist approach. Wave function realism is a way of interpreting quantum theories so that the central object they describe is the quantum wave function, interpreted as a field in an extremely high-dimensional space. According to this approach, the non separability and nonlocality we seem to find in quantum mechanics are ultimately manifestations of a more intuitive, separable, and local picture in higher dimensions.
9780190097745 (e-book)
Wave functions
Quantum theory
QC174.26 / W3N49 2021
The world in the wave function : a metaphysics for quantum physics / by Alyssa Ney. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021 - 1 online resource (xiv, 269, pages) : color illustrations.
https://www.universitypressscholarship.com/
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. A preliminary case for wave function realism -- 2.The argument from entanglement -- 3 The virtues of separability and locality -- 4. Wave function realism in a relativistic setting -- 5. Must an ontology for quantum theories contain local beables? -- 6. The causal role of macroscopic objects -- 7. Finding the macroworld
What are the ontological implications of quantum theories, that is, what do they tell us about the fundamental objects that make up our world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of the basic constitution of material objects and ourselves? Is there fundamental quantum nonlocality? This book articulates several rival approaches to answering these questions, ultimately defending the wave function realist approach. Wave function realism is a way of interpreting quantum theories so that the central object they describe is the quantum wave function, interpreted as a field in an extremely high-dimensional space. According to this approach, the non separability and nonlocality we seem to find in quantum mechanics are ultimately manifestations of a more intuitive, separable, and local picture in higher dimensions.
9780190097745 (e-book)
Wave functions
Quantum theory
QC174.26 / W3N49 2021