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Space and Time in the Microworld
Başlık:
Space and Time in the Microworld
ISBN:
9789401025089
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed. 1973.
Yayın Bilgileri:
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1973.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XIV, 330 p. online resource.
Contents:
I. Geometrical Measurements in the Macroworld -- 1. The Arithmetization of Space-Time -- 2. The Physical Methods of Arithmetization of Space-Time -- 3. On Dividing the Manifold of Events into Space and Time -- 4. The Aftine Manifold -- 5. The Riemann Manifold -- 6. The Physics of Arithmetization of the Space-Time Manifold -- 7. Arithmetization of Events in the Case of the Non-Linear Theory of Fields -- 8. The General Theory of Relativity and the Arithmetization of Space-Time -- 9. Chronogeometry -- II. Geometrical Measurements in the Microworld -- 10. Some Remarks on Measurements in the Microworld -- 11. The Measurement of Coordinates of the Microparticles -- 12. The Mechanics of Measuring Coordinates of Microparticles -- 13. Indirect Measurement of a Microparticle Coordinates at a Given Instant in Time -- III. Geometrical Measurements in the Microworld in the Relativistic Case -- 14. The Fermion Field -- 15. The Uncertainty Relation for Fermions -- 16. The Boson Field -- 17. The Localization of Photons -- 18. The Diffusion of Relativistic Packets -- 19. The Coordinates of Newton and Wigner -- 20. The Measurement of a Microparticle's Coordinates in the Relativistic Case -- IV. The Role of Finite Dimensions of Elementary Particles -- 21. The Polarization of Vacuum. The Dimensions of an Electron -- 22. The Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons -- 23. The Meson Structure of Nucleons -- 24. The Structure of Particles in Quantized Field Theory -- V. Causality in Quantum Theory -- 25. A Few Remarks on Causality in the Classical Theory of Fields -- 26. Causality in Quantum Field Theory -- 27. The Propagation of a Signal "Inside" a Microparticle -- 28. Microcausality in the Quantum Field Theory -- 29. Microcausality in the Theory of Scattering Matrices -- 30. Causality and the Analytical Properties of the Scattering Matrix -- VI. Macroscopic Causality -- 31. Formal ?-matrix Theory -- 32. Space-Time Descriptions Using the ?-matrix -- 33. The Scale for the Asymptotic Time T -- 34. Unstable Particles (Resonances) -- 35. Conditions of Macroscopic Causality for the S-matrix -- 36. Examples of Acausal Influence Functions -- 37. An Example of Constructing an Acausal Scattering Matrix -- 38. The Dispersion Relation for the Acausal ?a-Matrix -- VII. A Generalization of Causal Relationships and Geometry -- 39. Two Possible Generalizations -- 40. Euclidean Geometry in the Microworld -- 41. Stochastic Geometry -- 42. Discrete Space-Time -- 43. Quasi-Particlcs in Quantized Space -- 44. Fluctuations of the Metric -- 45. Nonlinear Fields and the Quantization of Space-Time -- VIII. Experimental Questions -- 46. Concluding Remarks on the Theory -- 47. Experimental Consequences of Local Acausality -- 48. Experimental Results of Models with the "External" Vector -- Appendices.
Dil:
English