Quantum Probabilities and Paradoxes of the Quantum Century
Abstract
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A history and drama of the development of quantum probability theory is outlined starting from the discovery of the Plank's constant exactly a 100 years ago. It is shown that before the rise of quantum mechanics 75 years ago, the quantum theory had appeared first in the form of the statistics of quantum thermal noise and quantum spontaneous jumps which have never been explained by quantum mechanics. Moreover, the only reasonable probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory put forward by Max Born was in fact in irreconcilable contradiction with traditional mechanical reality and classical probabilistic causality. This led to numerous quantum paradoxes, some of them due to the great inventors of quantum theory such as Einstein and Schroedinger. They are reconsidered in this paper from the modern quantum probabilistic point of view.
30 pages. Inaugural lecture, the presentation is at URL: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/vpb/inaugural/index.htm
30 pages. Inaugural lecture, the presentation is at URL: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/vpb/inaugural/index.htm