Interpreting the Quantum World
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521653862
Subjects: Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science/Mathematics; Science; Physics; Quantum Theory; Science / Quantum Theory; Science-Physics
First sentence: If you ask physicists what is so strange about quantum mechanics relative to classical mechanics, you might get different answers, but they would all boil down to the irreducibly probabilistic character of state descriptions in quantum mechanics: the dynamical variables of a quantum mechanical system (position, momentum, energy, spin, etc.) cannot all have determinate or 'sharp' values simultaneously - some dynamical variables must be indeterminate.