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After Physics (Paperback)
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After Physics (Paperback)
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After Physics presents ambitious new essays about some of the
deepest questions at the foundations of physics, by the physicist
and philosopher David Albert. The book's title alludes to the close
connections between physics and metaphysics, much in evidence
throughout these essays. It also alludes to the work of imagining
what it would be like for the project of physical
science-considered as an investigation into the fundamental laws of
nature-to be complete. Albert argues that the difference between
the past and the future-traditionally regarded as a matter for
metaphysical or conceptual or linguistic or phenomenological
analysis-can be understood as a mechanical phenomenon of nature. In
another essay he contends that all versions of quantum mechanics
that are compatible with the special theory of relativity make it
impossible, even in principle, to present the entirety of what can
be said about the world as a narrative sequence of "befores" and
"afters." Any sensible and realistic way of solving the
quantum-mechanical measurement problem, Albert claims in yet
another essay, is ultimately going to force us to think of
particles and fields, and even the very space of the standard
scientific conception of the world, as approximate and emergent.
Novel discussions of the problem of deriving principled limits on
what can be known, measured, or communicated from our fundamental
physical theories, along with a sweeping critique of the main
attempts at making sense of probabilities in many-worlds
interpretations of quantum mechanics, round out the collection.
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