Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of papers on quantum philosophy by J. S. Bell
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution
- 1 On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics
- 2 On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
- 3 The moral aspect of quantum mechanics
- 4 Introduction to the hidden-variable question
- 5 Subject and object
- 6 On wave packet reduction in the Coleman–Hepp model
- 7 The theory of local beables
- 8 Locality in quantum mechanics: reply to critics
- 9 How to teach special relativity
- 10 Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
- 11 The measurement theory of Everett and de Broglie's pilot wave
- 12 Free variables and local causality
- 13 Atomic-cascade photons and quantum-mechanical nonlocality
- 14 de Broglie–Bohm, delayed-choice double-slit experiment, and density matrix
- 15 Quantum mechanics for cosmologists
- 16 Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality
- 17 On the impossible pilot wave
- 18 Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics
- 19 Beables for quantum field theory
- 20 Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics
- 21 EPR correlations and EPW distributions
- 22 Are there quantum jumps?
- 23 Against ‘measurement’
- 24 La nouvelle cuisine
24 - La nouvelle cuisine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of papers on quantum philosophy by J. S. Bell
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution
- 1 On the problem of hidden variables in quantum mechanics
- 2 On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox
- 3 The moral aspect of quantum mechanics
- 4 Introduction to the hidden-variable question
- 5 Subject and object
- 6 On wave packet reduction in the Coleman–Hepp model
- 7 The theory of local beables
- 8 Locality in quantum mechanics: reply to critics
- 9 How to teach special relativity
- 10 Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiments
- 11 The measurement theory of Everett and de Broglie's pilot wave
- 12 Free variables and local causality
- 13 Atomic-cascade photons and quantum-mechanical nonlocality
- 14 de Broglie–Bohm, delayed-choice double-slit experiment, and density matrix
- 15 Quantum mechanics for cosmologists
- 16 Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality
- 17 On the impossible pilot wave
- 18 Speakable and unspeakable in quantum mechanics
- 19 Beables for quantum field theory
- 20 Six possible worlds of quantum mechanics
- 21 EPR correlations and EPW distributions
- 22 Are there quantum jumps?
- 23 Against ‘measurement’
- 24 La nouvelle cuisine
Summary
Respectfully dedicated to the great chef
Introduction
There is an ongoing series of symposia, at Tokyo, on ‘Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology’. Indeed new technology (electronics, computers, lasers, …) has made possible new demonstrations of quantum queerness. And it has made possible practical approximations to old gedankenexperiments. Over the last decade or so have appeared beautiful experiments on ‘particle’ interference and diffraction, with neutrons and electrons, on ‘delayed choice’, on the Ehrenburg–Siday–Aharonov–Bohm effect, and on the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm correlations. These last are of particular relevance for the particular themes of this paper. But those themes arise already in the context of technology which is neither new or advanced, as is illustrated by the following passage:
I want to boil an egg. I put the egg into boiling water and I set an alarm for five minutes. Five minutes later the alarm rings and the egg is done. Now the alarm clock has been running according to the laws of classical mechanics uninfluenced by what happened to the egg. And the egg is coagulating according to laws of physical chemistry and is uninfluenced by the running of the clock. Yet the coincidence of these two unrelated causal happenings is meaningful, because, I, the great chef, imposed a structure on my kitchen.
These notions, of cause and effect on the one hand, and of correlation on the other, and the problem of formulating them sharply in contemporary physical theory, will be the themes of my talk.
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- Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum MechanicsCollected Papers on Quantum Philosophy, pp. 232 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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