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    Quantum Causality : Conceptual Issues in the Causal Theory of Quantum Mechanics (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789048124039 , 9789048124022
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Edition: 1
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 23
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Riggs, Peter J. Quantum causality
    RVK:
    UK 1200
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Quantum theory ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Quantum theory ; Science Philosophy ; Quantenmechanik ; Kausalität ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This is a treatise devoted to the foundations of quantum physics and the role that causality plays in the microscopic world governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. There is no sharp dividing line between physics and philosophy of physics. This is especially true for quantum physics where debate on its interpretation and the status of the various entities postulated has raged in both the scientific and philosophical communities since the 1920s and continues to this day. Although it is readily granted that quantum mechanics produces some strange and counter-intuitive results, it is argued in Quantum Causality that quantum mechanics is not as weird as we might have been led to believe. The dominant theory of quantum mechanics is called Orthodox Quantum Theory (also known as the Copenhagen Interpretation). Orthodox Quantum Theory is a ‘theoretical tool’ for making predictions for the possible results of experiments on quantum systems and requires the intervention of an observer or an observer’s proxy (e.g. a measuring apparatus) in order to produce predictions. Orthodox Quantum Theory does away with the notion of causality and denies the existence of an underlying quantum realm. The Causal Theory is not well known within the physics community and many physicists who do know of it are generally dismissive in their attitudes. This is a historical legacy inherited by the majority of the physics community from the most influential founders of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. They both denied the independent existence of a quantum level of reality and declared that causality does not apply to quantum events. Quantum Causality shows that the Causal Theory of Quantum Mechanics is a viable physical theory that provides realistic explanations for quantum phenomena. Much of what is argued for in this book will be controversial but, at the very least, these arguments will likely engender some lively debate on the various issues raised.
    Description / Table of Contents: General Introduction; Preliminaries; The Causal Theory of Quantum Mechanics; Energy and the Wave Field; Energy-Momentum Transfer and the Quantum Potential; The Exclusion Principle
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2403-9
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    Leibniz's Metaphysics of Time and Space (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9781402082375
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 217 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 258
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Futch, Michael J. Leibniz's metaphysics of time and space
    RVK:
    CF 5517
    RVK:
    UB 7500
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Metaphysik ; Raum ; Zeit
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8237-5
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  • 3
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    The Genesis of Fluid Mechanics, 1640 - 1780 (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9781402064142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 22
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Calero, Julián Simón The genesis of fluid mechanics, 1640 - 1780
    RVK:
    UB 2405
    Keywords: Science History ; Technology Philosophy ; Hydraulic engineering ; Science, general ; Strömungsmechanik ; Geschichte 1640-1780
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6414-2
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    New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 11–14 January 2004 (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9781402030857
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 266p, digital)
    Series Statement: NATO Science Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 183
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. New challenges in superconductivity
    RVK:
    UP 2200
    Keywords: Science (General) ; Condensed matter ; Particles (Nuclear physics) ; Superconductivity ; Science, general ; Physics ; Supraleitung
    Abstract: Fulin Zuo
    Abstract: This volume contains the proceedings of the 2004 University of Miami Workshop onUnconventional Superconductivity. The workshop was the fourth in a series of successful meetings on High-TCSuperconductivity and related topics, which took place at the James L. Knight Physics Building on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida, in January 1991, 1995, 1999, and 2004.The volume includes high-quality papers on state of the art works on unconventional superconductivity. A key issue, discussed by many in the workshop, was how homogeneous the cuprates are. STM data, as well as other reports, showed that the cuprate superconductors (SC's) studied were inhomogeneous, especially in the underdoped regime; while experiments, like ARPES and magnetoresistance have established the existence of a Fermi Surface, at least above some doping level, in the cuprates. Other topics ranging from the pseudogap problem to pairing mechanisms are also discussed by various authors. In general, experiments show more convergence than high-TCtheories. There is definitely no consensus on the high- TCmechanism, although two broad groups exist: those around the extended "Big Tent" homogenous scheme, and those who assume an intrinsic inhomogeneous state. Another division could be viewed between those who consider the high- TCmechanism to be essentially of an electronic-magnetic origin (with no role played by the lattice), and those who assign an important role to the lattice.There seemed to be a consensus in the workshop that MgB2 and the fullerenes are simpler SC's than the cuprates, while work on ruthenocuprates and the coexistence of SC and ferromagnetism provided new stimuli to research and understanding. Interest was drawn also by the new NaxCoO2yH2O SC. Although this is a low-TCmaterial, its physical properties have asimilarity to those of the cuprates; thus research on this system seems to be important for the understanding of high TCSC.The volume gives a brief overview of many facets of present day superconductivity research and should be of great interest to all scientists and research students who work in the field of superconductivity or related subjects in condensed matter physics and material sciences.
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3085-1
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    Lenses and Waves : Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9781402026980
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 289 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Archimedes 9
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan Lenses and waves
    RVK:
    TB 2355
    RVK:
    TB 3187
    RVK:
    UB 2420
    Keywords: Science (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Mathematics_$xHistory ; Physics History ; Science, general ; Philosophy ; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary ; Huygens, Christiaan 1629-1695 ; Optik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: From the contents: 1. Introduction – 'The perfect Cartesian' -- 2. 1653 – 'Tractatus' -- 3. 1655-1672 – 'De Aberratione' -- 4. The 'Project' of 1672 -- 5. 1677-1679 – Waves of Light -- 6. 1690 – Traité de la Lumière -- 7. Conclusion: Lenses & Waves -- List of figures -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens’ wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account. In addition, the development of Huygens’ thinking on the nature of light is put in the context of his optics as a whole, which was dominated by his lifelong pursuit of theoretical and practical dioptrics. In so doing, this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens’ mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its significance for the origin of the wave theory of light. As Huygens applied his mathematical proficiency to practical issues pertaining to telescopes – including trying to design a perfect telescope by means of mathematical theory – his dioptrics is significant for our understanding of seventeenth-century relations between theory and practice. With this full account of Huygens’ optics, this book sheds new light on the history of seventeenth-century optics and the rise of the new mathematical sciences, as well as Huygens’ oeuvre as a whole. Students of the history of optics, of early mathematical physics, and the Scientific Revolution, will find this book enlightening
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2698-8
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