The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Relativistic Treatment

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Removed Watermark and Fixed Paging Contents Preface 1 Introduction Quantum Peculiarities 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Quantum Peculiarities 1.3 Prevailing Interpretations of QM 1.4 Quantum Theory Presents a Genuinely New Interpretational Challenge 2 The Map versus the Territory 2.1 The Irony of Quantum Theory 2.2 “Constructive” versus “Principle” Theories 2.3 Bohr’s Kantian Orthodoxy 2.4 The Proper Way to Interpret a “Principle” Theory 2.5 Heisenberg’s Hint: A New Metaphysical Category 2.6 Ernst Mach: Visionary/Reactionary 2.7 Quantum Theory and the Noumenal Realm 2.8 Science as the Endeavor to Understand Reality 3 The Original TI Fundamentals 3.1 Background 3.2 Basic Concepts of TI 3.3 “Measurement” Is Well Defined in TI 3.4 TI Sheds Light on Feynman’s Account of Quantum Probabilities 4 The New TI Possibilist Transactional Interpretation 4.1 Why PTI? 4.2 Basic Concepts of PTI 4.3 Addressing Some Concerns 4.4 “Transaction” Is Not Equivalent to “Trajectory” 4.5 Revisiting the Two-Slit Experiment 4.6 Null Measurements 5 The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation 5.1 TI Has Basic Compatibility with Relativity 5.2 The Quantum Direct-Action Theory 5.3 The Micro/Macro Distinction 5.4 Classical Limit of the Quantum Electromagnetic Field 5.5 Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics: RTI versus rGRWf 6 Challenges, Replies, and Applications 6.1 Challenges to TI 6.2 Interaction-Free Measurements 6.3 Delayed Choice Experiment 6.4 Quantum Eraser Experiments 6.5 Transactions and Decoherence 6.6 RTI Solves the Frauchiger–Renner Paradox 6.7 The Afshar Experiment 7 The Metaphysics of Possibility in RTI 7.1 Traditional Formulations of the Notion of Possibility 7.2 The PTI Formulation: Possibility as Physically Real Potentiality 7.3 Offer Waves, as Potentiae, Are Not Individuals 7.4 The Macroscopic World in PTI 7.5 An Example: Phenomenon versus Noumenon 7.6 Causality 7.7 Concerns about Structural Realism 8 RTI and Spacetime 8.1 Recalling Plato’s Distinction 8.2 Transactions and Spacetime Emergence 8.3 Transactions Break Time Symmetry and Lead to an Arrow of Time 8.4 Spacetime Relationalism 8.5 RTI versus Radical Relationalism 8.6 Ontological versus Epistemological Approaches,and Implications for Free Will 9 Epilogue References Index