附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-156).
1. The 'non-Einsteinian quantum theory'. 1.1. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. 1.2. Physics and the correspondence principle. 1.3. Quantum mechanics. 1.4. Wave mechanics. 1.5. The interpretation of microphysics -- 2. 'The crisis in theoretical physics'. 2.1. Einstein's early readings. 2.2. The basic principles in Einstein's early work. 2.3. The discussion of the light-quantum with Niels Bohr. 2.4. Does field theory present possibilities for the solution of the quantum problem? -- 3. Letters on wave mechanics. 3.1. The real Schrödinger equation. 3.2. On the uncertainty relation. 3.3. Are there quantum jumps? -- 4. Epistemological discussion with Einstein: does quantum mechanics describe reality correctly? 4.1. The fifth Solvay Conference (1927). 4.2. The discussions on epistemological problems. 4.3. Bohr's principle of complementarity and the Copenhagen school -- 5. Is the quantum-theoretical description of nature complete? 5.1. 'Knowledge of past and future in quantum mechanics'. 5.2. The completeness problem. 5.3. Physics and reality. 5.4. Quantum mechanics and reality -- 6. Does God play dice? -- 6.1. The 'statistical Einstein'. 6.2. Einstein's last discussion about statistical causality and determinism -- 7. Mach contra Kant: aspects of the development of Einstein's natural philosophy. 7.1. The heuristic points of view. 7.2. The economy of thought. 7.3. 'Theories are free inventions of the mind'. 7.4. Between Scylla and Charybdis. 7.5. Presuppositions and anticipations. 7.6. Intuition and experience. 7.7. What is reality? 7.8. Description and reality. 7.9. Science and hypothesis.
摘要:Albert Einstein was one of the principal founders of the quantum and relativity theories. Until 1925, when the Bose-Einstein statistics was discovered, he made great contributions to the foundations of quantum theory. However, after the discovery of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg and wave mechanics by Schrödinger, with the consequent development of the principles of uncertainty and complementarity, it would seem that Einstein's views completely changed. In his theory of the Brownian motion, Einstein had invoked the theory of probability to establish the reality of atoms and molecules; but, in.
