Quantum Mechanical Aspects

Carlo Heissenberg, Augusto Sagnotti

Bertrand Berche, Christophe Chatelain, Dufour +2 more

Many theoretical predictions derived from quantum mechanics have been confirmed experimentally for the last 80 years.However, interpretative aspects have long been subject to debate.Among them, the question of the existence of hidden variables is still open.We review these questions, paying special attention to historical aspects, and argue that one may definitively exclude local realism based on the present experimental outcomes.Nevertheless other interpretations of Quantum Mechanics are not excluded.

Fabien Gatti, Benjamin Lasorne, Hans‐Dieter Meyer +1 more

David Geoffrey Holdsworth

The contents of this paper consist of two independent but correlated topics. In Part I the history of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy of science is traced in an effort to demonstrate the essential phenomenological aspects of the scientific methodology. Part II, on the other hand, is a technical exposition of some foundational aspects of quantum mechanics based on quantum logic. An effort is made to retain the theme that quantum mechanics is largely a phenomenological theory. As a summary, Part III constitutes an attempt to correlate the first two parts and to present tentatively some consequent reflections on the metaphysical significance of the quantum mechanical formalism.

Martin Pieper