Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Part I - Models

pp 1-2

1 - How to Teach and Think About Spontaneous Wave Function Collapse Theories: Not Like Before

pp 3-11

2 - What Really Matters in Hilbert-Space Stochastic Processes

pp 12-22

3 - Dynamical Collapse for Photons

pp 23-46

4 - Quantum State Reduction

pp 47-73

5 - Collapse Models and Space–time Symmetries

pp 74-94

Part II - Ontology

pp 95-96

6 - Ontology for Collapse Theories

pp 97-123

7 - Properties and the Born Rule in GRW Theory

pp 124-133

8 - Paradoxes and Primitive Ontology in Collapse Theories of Quantum Mechanics

pp 134-153

9 - On the Status of Primitive Ontology

pp 154-166

10 - Collapse or No Collapse? What Is the Best Ontology of Quantum Mechanics in the Primitive Ontology Framework?

pp 167-184

Part III - Origin

pp 185-186

11 - Quantum State Reduction via Gravity, and Possible Tests Using Bose–Einstein Condensates

pp 187-206

12 - Collapse. What Else?

pp 207-224

13 - Three Arguments for the Reality of Wave-Function Collapse

pp 225-256

14 - Could Inelastic Interactions Induce Quantum Probabilistic Transitions?

pp 257-273

15 - How the Schrödinger Equation Would Predict Collapse: An Explicit Mechanism

pp 274-292

Part IV - Implications

pp 293-294

16 - Wave-Function Collapse, Non-locality, and Space–time Structure

pp 295-311

17 - The Weight of Collapse: Dynamical Reduction Models in General Relativistic Contexts

pp 312-345

Index

pp 346-348