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The Message of the Atoms

Essays on Wolfgang Pauli and the Unspeakable

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  • © 1997

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  1. Kalervo V. Laurikainen

    1. Klaukkala, Finland

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-4

  3. Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-6
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    2. Purgatory

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      Pages 7-14

    3. The Atoms Have the Floor

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      Pages 15-24

    4. Scientism

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      Pages 25-34

    5. The Power of Materialism

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      Pages 35-38

  4. Facts and Interpretations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-40
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    2. Ontology Implied by the Copenhagen Interpretation

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      Pages 41-47

    3. Basic Features of Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophy

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      Pages 53-59

    4. On the Meaning of Complementarity

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      Pages 61-69

    5. On the Criticism by Natural Scientists

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      Pages 71-91

  5. Creation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-94
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    2. Freedom

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      Pages 95-114

    3. Numinosum

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      Pages 115-120

    4. The World of Spirit

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      Pages 121-132

    5. The Problem of the Fourth

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      Pages 133-139

  6. The Outline of Reality

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      Pages 141-142
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    2. The Psychophysical World

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      Pages 143-152

    3. The Reality Beyond

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      Pages 153-162
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About this book

When I meet a difficult problem, I begin to go around it, approaching it again and again from different directions. If I persistently continue these approaches, it can happen that no problem remains. (RolfNevanlinna, in a private discussion.) In 1976, after a mainly administrative period of some 15 years, I spent a couple of months at CERN, working in the Pauli Collection. When I found the Pauli-Fierz correspondence, I had the intuitive feeling that there was the key: that "it was an objective description, and that it was the only possible objective description" for the mysteries of quantum mechanics. Here I have cited Bohr in his 'last interview' (see Chap. 7), which I became acquainted with only later, but I was immediately convinced that Pauli's view was more profound than anything else I had read about in quantum mechanics. However, nowadays the investigation of the foundations of quantum theory is dominated by 'realism', which means that the influence of the psyche on our conception of reality is ignored. This book is an attempt to show that this is not possible in quantum mechanics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Klaukkala, Finland

    Kalervo V. Laurikainen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Message of the Atoms

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Wolfgang Pauli and the Unspeakable

  • Authors: Kalervo V. Laurikainen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60560-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64457-3Published: 18 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60560-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 206

  • Additional Information: Original Finnish edition published by Yliopistopaino/Helsinki University Press 1994

  • Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

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