This book is the most complete collection of John S Bells research papers, review articles and lecture notes on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Some of this material has hitherto been difficult to access. The book also appears in a paperback edition, aimed at students and young researchers.
This volume will be very useful to researchers in the foundations and applications of quantum mechanics.
(1) On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics; (2) On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox; (3) The Moral Aspect of Quantum Mechanics; (4) Introduction to the Hidden-Variable Question; (5) The Measurement Theory of Everett and de Broglie's Pilot Wave; (6) Subject and Object; (7) On Wave Packet Reduction in the Coleman-Hepp Model; (8) The Theory of Local Beables; (9) How to Teach Special Relativity; (10) Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiments; (11) Free Variables and Local Causality; (12) Atomic-Cascade Photons and Quantum-Mechanical Nonlocality; (13) de Broglie-Bohm, Delayed-Choice, Double-Slit Experiment, and Density Matrix; (14) Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists; (15) Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality; (16) On the Impossible Pilot Wave; (17) Beables for Quantum Field Theory; (18) EPR Correlations and EPW Distributions; (19) Are There Quantum Jumps?; (20) Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics; (21) Against 'Measurement'; (22) La Nouvelle Cuisine; (23) In Memory of George Francis FitzGerald.
