1997, ISBN: 9780691016276

Princeton University Press, 1997 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 176 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Paul Teller presents the basic ideas of quantum field theory in a way that is understandable to reader… Plus…

Princeton University Press, 1997 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 176 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Paul Teller presents the basic ideas of quantum field theory in a way that is understandable to readers who are familiar with non-relativistic quantum mechanics. He provides information about the physics of the theory without calculational detail, and he enlightens readers on how to think about the theory physically. Along the way, he dismantles some popular myths and clarifies the novel ways in which quantum field theory is both a theory about fields and about particles. His goal is to raise questions about the philosophical implications of the theory and to offer some tentative interpretive views of his own. This provocative and thoughtful book challenges philosophers to extend their thinking beyond the realm of quantum mechanics and it challenges physicists to consider the philosophical issues that their explorations have encouraged." (from the blurb), Princeton University Press, 1997, 5<