11. Divine Action Topic: Clarke, Chris. The Histories Interpretation of Qu...
Histories Interpretation of Quantum Theory and the Problem of Human/Divine Action."
The overall aim of Chris
Clarkes essay is to show how a modification of the consistent- histories
interpretation of quantum mechanics provides a
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12. Divine Action Topic: Crutchfield, James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packa...
determinism posed by quantum mechanics for subatomic
phenomena like radioactive decay, but stresses that large-scale chaotic
behavior, which focuses instead on macroscopic phenomena like the trajectory of
a baseball or the flow of water,
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13. Divine Action Topic: Polkinghorne, John. Physical Process, Quantum Eve...
speaking about
individual quantum processes, including consistent-histories approaches. He
then outlines various groups of proposals for interpreting quantum theory which
seem more promising.
The first group starts with
quantum theory as it
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14. General Term: Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory A theory developed by Paul Dirac in 1927 that explains the apparent paradox
of wave/particle duality, by identifying a wave with the superposition of an
indefinite number of particles. For example, if a wave
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15. Physics Topic: Special Relativity
physics (the other is quantum mechanics ). It makes a fundamental
break with Newtonian mechanics, drastically changing our conceptions
of the physics of space, time and their relation. It was published
in 1905 by Einstein as a complete
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16. Divine Action Topic: Peacocke, Arthur. Gods Interaction with the...
stemming from quantum theory .
Chaotic and dissipative
systems prove to be unpredictable in practice, primarily because of the nature
of our knowledge of the real numbers, and possibly (and more problematically)
because of quantum
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17. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Rediscovery of the Observer
be understood in terms of quantum
theory.
In these topics we shall see how problems interpreting
black-body radiation led to the ultraviolet catastrophe and the first
proposal in quantum theory, how Einstein helped the
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18. Divine Action Topic: Cushing, James T. Determinism Versus Indeterminis...
the no-signaling theory of quantum mechanics prohibits sending messages
faster than light.
In Bohms theory, the
quantum potential U conveys the
influence of the environment on the particle, while U is determined, in turn,
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19. Divine Action Topic: Berry, Michael. Chaos and the Semiclassical Limit...
as we
generalize to a deeper theory, the singularities of the old theory are
dissolved and replaced by new ones.
Book Series Index
Next: Butterfield, Jeremy. Some Worlds of Quantum Theory."
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20. Divine Action Topic: Shimony, Abner. The Reality of the Quantum World....
The Reality of the Quantum World ."
In this paper, Abner Shimony
describes two essential concepts in quantum mechanics . The first is the quantum
state or wavefunction, which specifies all the quantities of a physical
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