Reading Bohr Physics and Philosophy potx

[...]... be cited by this study are found in Niels Bohr, The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, 4 vols (Bohr 1987; Bohr 1998) and John Archibald Wheeler and Wojciech Hubert Zurek, eds., Quantum Theory and Measurement (Wheeler and Zurek 1983), which will be hereafter referred to as PWNB and QTM, respectively The materials from the Archive for the History of Quantum Physics (Interviews) will be referred to... I think, missed in both (Ulfbeck and Bohr 2001) and (Bohr, Mottelson, and Ulfbeck 2004) 14 Complementarity, Epistemology, and Quantum Mechanics as an Information Theory sense of something that can be extracted or learned from nature in an experiment, recorded, communicated, and so forth has been around for much longer and has formed the experimental basis of modern physics since Galileo This type of... it aims to delineate the philosophical content of Bohr s key concepts I shall, however, also discuss their physical content, both in its own right and in order to elucidate their philosophical content, or rather to use their physical and philosophical content to elucidate each other, and thus to understand better the reciprocity between physics and philosophy in the architecture of these concepts I... the outcome of the relevant experiments and thus give rise to a new conception of chance and probability in physics One might see the conceptuality of classical physics as a particular, suitably refined, form of what we can in principle conceive of As both Bohr and Heisenberg emphasized, classical physics may be seen as a refinement of our common perception and thinking, specifically as regards such... interpretations and the thought of the different figures involved, even those who are considered, and consider themselves, close to Bohr (Heisenberg and Pauli, among them) These differences are much greater than it is usually argued and often outweigh the shared features, important as the latter may be I would argue that, once considered in all of its aspects, Bohr s interpretation (in the present reading. .. every paragraph (and often a single sentence) of his work on complementarity offers a rich source of possible commentary and a platform for further thinking about Bohr, physics, and philosophy The Introduction and, to some degree, Chapter 1 are designed to offer an introduction to Bohr s key ideas, discussed in detail later in this study In general, however, in accordance with the genre of the essay,... these circumstances and thus of quantum phenomena and quantum mechanics just sketched and to be developed in this study views Bohr s complementarity as an interpretation, one among possible interpretations, rather than a definitive interpretation, the interpretation, of quantum mechanics or quantum phenomena Bohr s position on this issue appears to be somewhat ambivalent, and certain of Bohr s statements... worth stressing, however, that Bohr s essays offer us rigorous physics, as rigorous as any, and are sometimes compelled to pursue their arguments in an essay form in order to maintain this rigor Planck’s article introducing his black-body radiation law and with it quantum physics and Heisenberg’s first paper of quantum mechanics have something of this quality as well, as does Bohr s so-called Como lecture,... 4 Cf., the discussion of the situation in (Ulfbeck and Bohr 2001) and (Bohr, Mottelson, and Ulfbeck 2004), although the authors seem to me to misread Bohr in thinking that he subscribes to viewing quantum objects and processes themselves in terms of particles and their motions, a view that they rightly question Quantum Epistemology and Quantum Information 13 works, especially his later works, he tends... Theunissen, Mieke van der Fluit, and Ian Mulvany, for their patience and professionalism I am grateful to Colin Charlton for expert copyediting and virtuoso digital skills I would also like to thank Nina, Marsha, Paula, and Inge-Vera An earlier version of Chapter 2 appeared, as “On the Precise Definition of Quantum Variables and the Relationships between Mathematics and Physics in Quantum Theory,” in . between physics and philosophy in Bohr s work have been considered in commentaries on Bohr, the implications of Bohr s work for the history of the relationships between physics and philosophy. h1" alt="" Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy Fundamental Theories of Physics An International Book Series on The Fundamental Theories of Physics: Their Clarification, Development and Application Editor: ALWYN. also for understanding quantum theory and physics, and the relationships between them and philosophy beyond Bohr s work. First of all, it allows one to address with greater rigor and effectiveness