Looking Beyond Classical Mechanics

P. Enders

This chapter introduces the paradigm ‘quantization as selection problem’ by means of few historical remarks. They include Einstein’s 1907 reasoning, Schrödinger’s 1926 derivation of his wave equation, and Gödel’s theorem and Munchhausen’s trilemma. The latter ones concern questions, which can be posed, but not be answered within CM. Such questions transcendent CM. This book poses the question, how the mechanics of oscillators without turning points looks like. (“oscillators without turning points” means oscillators, which may assume configurations beyond the classical turning points.)

G.C. Stey

David B. Cook

Orientation and Outlook Probabilities: Simple Probabilities A More Careful Look at Probabilities Classical Mechanics: The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation Angular Momentum Schrodinger's Mechanics: Prelude: Particle Diffraction The Genesis of Schrodinger's Mechanics The Schrodinger Equation Identities: Momenta and Dynamical Variables Abstracting the Structure Interpretation from Applications: The Quantum Kepler Problem The Harmonic Oscillator and Fields Perturbation Theory and Epicycles Formalisms and Hidden Variables Disputes and Paradoxes: Measurement at the Microscopic Level Paradoxes Beyond Schrodinger's Mechanics?

Thomas Strohm