Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation by Wallace, David

Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199546961)

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Format: Hardcover
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Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation by Wallace, David

Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation

$105.00
Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation by Wallace, David

Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the "many worlds" approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it seems to make crazy claims: particles are in two places at once; cats are alive and dead at the same time. So physicists and philosophers have often been led either to give up on the idea that quantum theory describes reality, or to modify or augment the theory.

Author: David Wallace
ISBN-10: 0199546967
ISBN-13: 9780199546961
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2012
Pages: 548
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.30d

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By David Wallace
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David Wallace was born in San Rafael, California, in 1976, but has been resident in the UK since 1977. He studied theoretical physics at Oxford University from 1994-2002, but upon realising his research interests lay mostly in conceptual and foundational aspects of physics, he moved across into philosophy of physics. For the last six years he has been Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy of Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He holds PhDs in physics and in philosophy, and his research interests span a wide range of issues on the boundary between philosophy and physics: symmetry and the gauge principle, the direction of time, the structure of quantum field theory, and of course the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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