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Quantum Mechanics and Experience David Z Albert Harvard Universily Press Cambri u =, Massachusents mn, England Contents Preface 1. Superposition 2, The Mathematical Formalism and the Standard ‘Way of Thinking about I 3. Nonlocaiy 4. The Measurement Problem 5. The Collapse of the Wave Funston 6. The Dynamics by tself 7. Bots Theory 8, Se Measurement Appendix: The Kochen-Healy-Dieks Interpretations Bibliography Index 6 B 80 134 180 19t 199 203 Preface ‘This book was written hoth a¢ an elementary text and as an ateempt fo add to what we presently understand, at the me Advanced level, about what seems to™me to be the central difficulty at the foundations of quantum mechanics, which is che diffculry bout measurement ‘The ist four chapeers are a more or les stesightforward intco-

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