The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

This book presents the deterministic view of quantum mechanics developed by Nobel Laureate Gerard 't Hooft. Dissatisfied with the uncomfortable gaps in the way conventional quantum mechanics meshes with the classical world, 't Hooft has revived the old hidden variable ideas, but now in a m...

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Main Author: 't Hooft, Gerard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 185
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41285-6
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505 0 |a I The Cellular Automaton Interpretation as a general doctrine: Motivation for this work -- Deterministic models in quantum notation -- Interpreting quantum mechanics -- Deterministic quantum mechanics -- Concise description of the CA Interpretation -- Quantum gravity -- Information loss -- More problems -- Alleys to be further investigated and open questions -- Conclusions -- II Calculation Techniques: Introduction to part II -- More on cogwheels -- The continuum limit of cogwheels, harmonic rotators and oscillators -- Locality -- Fermions -- PQ theory -- Models in two space-time dimensions without interactions -- Symmetries -- The discretised Hamiltonian formalism in PQ theory -- Quantum Field Theory -- The cellular automaton -- The problem of quantum locality -- Conclusions of part II -- Some remarks on gravity in 2+1 dimensions -- A summary of our views on Conformal Gravity -- Abbreviations. . 
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