Bücher der Reihe Texts and Monographs in Theoretical Physics

This book shows how quantum physics can be understood by taking as objective properties the q-expectations of products of quantum fields and what is computable from these. Probability and measurement are eliminated from the foundations and reappear as simplified coarse-grained descriptions of what exists. The resulting dissipation and nonlinearity may lead to bistability and explains the binary nature of paradigmatic quantum measurements.

This book sets out to give a rigorous mathematical description of the greenhouse effect through the theory of infrared atmospheric emission. In contrast to traditional climatological analysis, this approach eschews empirical relations in favour of a strict thermodynamical derivation, based on data from NASA and from the HITRAN spectroscopy database. The results highlight new aspects of the role of clouds in the greenhouse effect.