Quantum Mechanics Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony

Name: Quantum Mechanics Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony
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ISBN: 9780226132020

ISBN-10: 0226132021

ISBN-13: 9780226132020

Edition: 1994

Authors: James T. Cushing

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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…

Book details

List price: $123.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Theory Construction and Selection



Formalism, Interpretation, and Understanding



Standard Quantum Theory



Bohm's Quantum Theory



Alternative Interpretations: An Illustration



Opposing Commitments, Opposing Schools



Competition and Forging Copenhagen



Early Attempts at Causal Theories: A Stillborn Program



The Fate of Bohm's Program



An Alternative Scenario?



Lessons


Notes


References


Author Index


Subject Index