Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance

Download or read book Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a metaphysical potentiality. Abner has described these events without actions to link them as `passion at a distance': not active, but passive. The discussions gathered here are written by a truly remarkable cast of scientists and philosophers and shed new light on the most profound puzzles of our times.