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1 - Introduction

Quantum Peculiarities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2022

Ruth E. Kastner
Ruth E. Kastner
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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This chapter serves as an elementary introduction to the basic quantum puzzles such as the measurement problem, indeterminacy, nonlocality, entanglement, and ambiguity surrounding the projection postulate. It briefly reviews the standard extant interpretations such as the Copenhagen interpretation, many-worlds interpretation, and hidden variables interpretation, and introduces the idea that quantum theory is about a new metaphysical category: physical possibility or res potentia.

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indeterminacynonlocalityEPR experimententanglementmeasurement problemdecoherenceprojection postulate
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The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
A Relativistic Treatment
 , pp. 1 - 25
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Introduction
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.002
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  • Introduction
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.002
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  • Introduction
  • Ruth E. Kastner, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907538.002
Available formats
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