Callender, Craig (2023) The Prodigy That Time Forgot: The Incredible and Untold Story of John von Newton. [Preprint]
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By developing an absurd counterfactual history, I show that many objections launched against Bohmian mechanics could also have been made against Newtonian mechanics. This paper introduces readers to Koopman-von Neumann dynamics, an operator-based Hilbert space representation of classical statistical mechanics. Lessons for quantum foundations are drawn by replaying the battles between advocates of standard quantum theory and Bohmian mechanics in a fictional classical history.
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| Additional Information: | Submitted for a memorial volume in honor of Detlef Duerr. | ||||||
| Keywords: | quantum mechanics; classical mechanics; Koopman-von Neumann; measurement problem | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Depositing User: | Craig Callender | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2023 13:09 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 13:09 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 22278 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics |
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| Date: | 3 July 2023 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22278 |
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