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TEXTS AND MONOGRAPHS IN PHYSICS LOCAL QUANTUM...

The new edition provided the opportunity of adding a new chapter entitled Principles and
Lessons of Quantum Physics. It was a tempting challenge to try to sharpen the points at issue
in the long lasting debate on the Copenhagen Spirit  to assess the significance of various
arguments from our present vantage point  seventy years after the advent of quantum theory 
where  after ali  some problems appear in a different light. It includes a section on the
assumptions leading to the specific mathematical formalism of quantum theory and a section
entitled The evolutionary picture describing my personal conclusions. Alto­ gether the
discussion suggests that the conventional language is too narrow and that neither the
mathematical nor the conceptual structure are built for eter­ nity. Future theories will demand
radical changes though not in the direction of a return to determinism. Essential lessons
taught by Bohr will persist. This chapter is essentially self-contained. Some new material has
been added in the last chapter. It concerns the char­ acterization of specific theories within
the general frame and recent progress in quantum field theory on curved space-time manifolds. A
few pages on renor­ malization have been added in Chapter II and some effort has been invested
in the search for mistakes and unclear passages in the first edition. The central objective of
the book  expressed in the title Local Quantum Physics  is the synthesis between special
relativity and quantum theory to­ gether with a few other principles of general nature.

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