The Concept of Probability Proceedings of the Delphi Conference, October 1987, Delphi, Greece

The Concept of Probability Proceedings of the Delphi Conference, October 1987, Delphi, Greece / edited by E.I. Bitsakis, C.A. Nicolaides.

This volume contains articles from invited speakers at a meeting which took place in Delphi, during the week of October 12-16, 1987. The theme of the meeting was ''The concept of probability" and was organized by the "Group of Interdisciplinary Research" (Physics Department,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bitsakis, E.I (Editor), Nicolaides, C.A (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 24
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Elementary particles (Physics).
Quantum field theory.
Quantum physics.
Probabilities.
Philosophy and science.
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Table of Contents:
  • Following SchrÖdinger’s Thoughts
  • Letter from SchrÖdinger to Einstein, 18 November 1950
  • SchrÖdinger’s thoughts on perfect knowledge
  • Concerning SchrÖdinger’s question: is Democritus of Planck the founder of quantum theory?
  • SchrÖdinger’s reception of Greek atomism
  • Probability and Quantum Mechanics
  • Probability theory in quantum mechanics
  • Measurement and amplitudes
  • Representations of quantum logics and transition probability spaces
  • Probability in quantum mechanics
  • Aspects of the Arguments on Nonlocality, Bell’s Theorem and EPR Correlations
  • Bell’s theorem: a counterexample that agrees with the quantum formalism
  • Quantum probability and quantum potential approach to quantum mechanics
  • Time and enhancement: two possible local explanations for the EPR puzzle
  • On Bell-type inequalities in quantum logics
  • Physical meaning of the performed experiments concerning the EPR paradox
  • Comments on the “uncontrollable” character of non-locality
  • Real or Gedanken Experiments and their Interpretation
  • Some basic differences between the Copenhagen and de Broglie interpretation of quantum mechanics leading to practical experiments
  • Search for new tests of the EPR paradox from elementary particle physics
  • On the role of consciousness in random physical processes
  • Recent experiments in the foundations of quantum mechanics
  • Numerical simulations of reduction of wavepackets
  • Description of experiments in physics: a dynamical approach
  • The physical quantities in the radndom data of neutron interferometry
  • Questions About Irreversibility and Stochasticity
  • Intrinsic irreversibility in classical and quantum mechanics
  • A new challenge for statistical mechanics
  • Quantum stochastic calculus as a unifying force in physics and probability
  • On the search of the time operator since SchrÖdinger
  • Stochastic optics: a wave theory of light based on classical probabilities
  • Quasiprobability distributions in quantum optics
  • Stochastic-dynamical approach to quantum mechanics
  • Epistemology, Interpretation And Conjecture
  • Relativity and probability, classical and quantal
  • Classical and quantum probabilities
  • The ensemble interpretation of probability
  • Qm axiom representations with imaginary and transfinite numbers and exponentials
  • A change in paradigm: a realistic Copenhagen interpretation (realism without hidden variables)
  • Pythia and Tyche: an eternal golden braid
  • Quanta of action and probability
  • Comments on Popper’s interpretations of probability
  • Van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism and the concept of probability
  • Unification of the concepts of quantum ensembles and potential possibilities.

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