Quantum Discreteness is an Illusion

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1476-1493

  Zeh, H Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Nonlocality; Particle concept; Quantum events

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957282048     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-009-9383-9     Document Type: Article

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