Author:
Duncan Anthony,Janssen Michel
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter covers the emergence of the statistical interpretation of the new quantum mechanics. After covering the earliest suggestions in this direction by Born and Pauli, it covers the statistical transformation theory of Dirac and Jordan, focusing on Jordan’s version. This version was an important part of the inspiration of Heisenberg’s uncertainty paper, which is covered next. The chapter concludes with the Como and Solvay conferences of late 1927 where Bohr revealed his complementarity principle and where the Copenhagen-Göttingen matrix-mechanics camp of Bohr, Born, Heisenberg, and Pauli squared off with Schrödinger, Einstein, De Broglie, and others in the wave-mechanics camp over the interpretation of the new quantum formalism.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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