Measurement postulate is crucial to quantum mechanics. If we measure a quantum system, we can only get one of the eigenvalues of the measured observable, such as position, energy and so on, with a ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Bohr’s Model of an Atom: Danish Physicist Niels Bohr received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen in 1911. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the atom’s ...

The postulates of rational preference suggested by Von Neumann and Morgenstern have been defended as descriptive or empirical generalizations and as normative principles. It is argued that the ...

CLERK MAXWELL'S original suggestion, revived in NATURE for April 12, p. 566, was in danger of being lost sight of, although it has been renewed independently from time to time; see, for example, Phil.

After identifying contrasting formulations of the practical postulates of reason in Kant's second critique, I analyse the context of each formulation, showing both how the postulate of the ...

In 1988, I was asked to summarize a symposium on the then relatively new field of microbial pathogenesis and to comment on the contributions of molecular biology and genetics to the study of bacterial ...

Expert opinion, one foundation of civil litigation and justice, should be based on robust reasoning. An unrelated namesake of the author, the microbiologist Robert Koch, formulated four criteria or ...