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Local Quantum Mechanics: Everett, Many Worlds, and Reality

Editat de Alyssa Ney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2026
Local Quantum Mechanics explores the idea that, if one adopts the many worlds interpretation, then one can avoid what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance,” the non-locality that is supposed to be a consequence of quantum entanglement according to other approaches. The essays in this volume aim first to articulate a clear and defensible formulation of the argument from locality for preferring the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics over its rivals, and then evaluate it.In this volume, editor Alyssa Ney brings together contributors from both philosophy and physics to question in what sense those in quantum foundations should care about locality. In particular, Local Quantum Mechanics explores whether and how an interpretation of quantum mechanics should avoid action at a distance to maintain consistency with special relativity. Finally, these essays assess whether the many worlds interpretation needs a particular metaphysical or mathematical interpretation to achieve the aim of providing a local interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197792735
ISBN-10: 0197792731
Pagini: 398
Ilustrații: 26
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Alyssa Ney is Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She is the author of The Fundamentality of Physics, The World in the Wave Function, and Metaphysics: An Introduction, as well as numerous articles in metaphysics and philosophy of physics. She holds degrees in both physics and philosophy and is past-president of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science.

Cuprins

  • Introduction
  • 1: Christopher G. Timpson and David Wallace: Locality in Everett: Dynamics vs. Ontology
  • 2: Lev Vaidman: The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Is the Only Way to Avoid Action at a Distance
  • 3: Siddharth Muthukrishnan: Many Worlds as Anti-Conspiracy Theory: Locally and Causally Explaining a Quantum World Without Fine-Tuning
  • 4: Emily Adlam: Should Everettians Aspire to Locality?
  • 5: Nadia Blackshaw, Nick Huggett, and James Ladyman: Decoherence, Branching, and Locality: A Single Worlder's Guide to Many Worlds
  • 6: Alyssa Ney: Branching (Almost) Everywhere and All at Once
  • 7: Alastair Wilson: Explanations of and in Worlds
  • 8: Guido Bacciagaluppi: The Relativity of Branching
  • 9: Mordecai Waegell and Kelvin J. McQueen: Nonlocal Action in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
  • 10: Sam Kuypers: Restoring Locality: The Heisenberg Picture as a Separable Description of Quantum Theory
  • 11: Charles Alexandre Bédard: Realism and the Inequivalence of the Two Quantum Pictures
  • 12: Eugene Y. S. Chua and Charles T. Sebens: Relativistic Locality from Electromagnetism to Quantum Field Theory