Research Catalog

Title

Quantum mechanics / Robert John Russell [and others], editors.

Publication

Vatican City State : Vatican Observatory ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Russell, Robert J.
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
• Specola vaticana.

Description

xxvi, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

A series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" ; 5th v.

Uniform Title

Series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" ; 5th v.

Subject

• Quantum theory
• Physics > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Theology
• Religion and science
• Quantum Theory
• Theology
• Religion and Science
• theology
• Physics > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Quantum theory
• Religion and science
• Kongress
• Quantenmechanik
• Religion
• Kwantummechanica
• Geloof en wetenschap

Genre/Form

Vatikanstadt (2000)

Note

• Based on a conference held at the Vatican Observatory, 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Scientific and historical context. -- The reality of the quantum world / Abner Shimony -- Quantum nonlocalities : experimental evidence / Raymond Y. Chiao -- Chaos and the semiclassical limit of quantum mechanics (Is the moon there when someone looks?) -- Formalism and ontology in early astronomy / Ernan McMullin -- II. Philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. -- Epistemological and ontological issues arising from quantum theory / William J. Stoeger -- Determinism versus indeterminism in quantum mechanics : a "free" choice / James T. Cushing -- Some worlds of quantum theory / Jeremy Butterfield -- The tangled story of nonlocality in quantum mechanics / Michael Redhead -- The histories interpretation of quantum theory and the problem of human/divine action / Chris Clarke -- III. Theological issues. -- Physical process, quantum events, and divine agency / John Polkinhorne -- Generalizations : from quantum mechanics to God / Michael Heller -- Tracing the lines : constraint and freedom in the movement from quantum physics to theology / Philip Clayton -- Creation, providence, and quantum chance / Thomas F. Tracy -- Quantum theory and the macroscopic world / George F.R. Ellis -- Divine action and quantum mechanics : a fresh assessment / Robert John Russell.

ISBN

• 026803978X
• 9780268039783

LCCN

2003382946

OCLC

• ocm49691251
• 49691251
• SCSB-1250150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library