Non-locality and Possible World : a Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement.

This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition...

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Main Author: Bigaj, Tomasz F.
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2006.
Series:Deutsche Hochschulschriften. Epistemische Studien.
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Summary:This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition that purports to exclude the existence of causal interactions between spatially separated parts of a system. They also make it possible to speak consistently about alternative measuring settings, and to explicate what is meant by quantum property attributions. The book develops the possible-world se.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages).
ISBN:3110322862
9783110322866