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Undoubtedly, many a physicist would disagree with one or several of the 'Copenhagen dogma' statements made in this exposition which is a somewhat severe, but very well-argued sequence of cases. In many cases, the conclusion is likely to be as stated by the author, but in several others, such as quantum logics or the Feynman path integral approach, the author seems to have completely 'missed the mark', and solid arguments are not at all presented. Still, the entire exposition has merit in many of the themes discussed as it raises the challenge of solving problems that are of importance to physics, such as quantum logics; in the latter case, it would seem that the author did not appreciate its value along with the difficulties involved, and it does remains an open, important problem to be solved rather than be summarily dismissed out of hand. Contrary also to the author's opinion, the arguments and cases presented would be quite instructive and interesting to graduate and post-graduate students to study, reflect upon and draw their own conclusions. Such as, is for example, Feynman's path integrals approach and Bohmian Mechanics that are also being dismissed by the author as "lost causes"; many physicists and students would most likely disagree with the arguments made in this over-critical exposition. http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/lostcauses.html#XV http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/index.html Other published papers by the same author are at: http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/papers09.html [126] The Soret and Dufour Effects in Statistical Dynamics, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 456, 205-221. The full paper, including the MAPLE programme, can be read in the archive , math--ph/9910043. [127] The Information Manifold for Relatively Bounded Potentials, (in English) in "Problems of the Modern Mathematical Physics"; Eds. V. S. Vladimirov, A. A. Slavnov and M. O. Katanaev; a collection of papers dedicated to the 90 th anniversary of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov. Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V. A. Steklova, 228, 217--235, 2000. Nauka Publ. Interperiodica 2000. The papers in English, as well as translations of the others, appear in: Proc. V. A. Steklov Institute Math., 228, pp 205--223, 2000. This can also be obtained from the archive, math--ph/9910035. [128] The Analytic Quantum Information Manifold, pp 603--611 in "Stochastic Processes, Physics and Geometry: New Interplays, II", A volume in honour of Sergio Albeverio, Can. Math. Soc., Conf. Proc. Series, 29. Edited by Fritz Gesztesy, Helge Holden, Juergen Jost, Sylvie Paycha, Michael Roeckner and Sergio Scarlatti. Available from the archive, math-ph/9910036. [129] The quantum information manifold for epsilon--bounded forms, with M. Grasselli, Reports on Math. Physics, 46, 325--335, 2000. Available from the archive, math-ph/9910031. Also from the Los Alamos archive directly. [130] Classical and Quantum Probability, J. Mathematical. Phys., 41, 3556--3603. Available from the archive, math--ph/0002049. [131] "Classical and quantum info manifolds.", Proc. RIMS Symposium on Analytical Study of Quantum Information and Related Fields, (25--27 Jan 2000) eds. M. Ohya and N. Watanabe. RIMS (Kyoto) Kokyuroku Series, pp 32--51. Available from the archive math--ph/0002050. [132] "Stability of a Hot Smoluchowski Fluid, Open Systems and Information Dynamics", 7, 1--9, 2000. It can be seen on the archive, math--ph/0103026. [133] "PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That" (with A. S. Wightman). Reissued by Princeton University Press, with corrections, 2000. 2001: [134] "On the uniqueness of the Chentsov metric in quantum information theory", with M. Grasselli. Infinite-dimensional analysis, quantum probability, and related topics, 4, 173-182. World Scientific. Also available from the archive, math-ph/ 0006030. 10 LATEX pages. [135] "The uniqueness of the Chentsov metric", with M. Grasselli. A six-page summary of the earlier work, pp 165-170 of: "Disordered and Complex Systems", Amer Inst. of Phys. Conference Proceedings, Vol. 553, 2001. Editors: P. Sollich, A. C. C. Coolen, L. Hughston and R. F. Streater. [136] Book: "Disordered and Complex Systems.", Amer. Institute of Physics, Conference Proceedings, Vol. 553, 2001. Editors: P. Sollich, A. C. C. Coolen, L. Hughston, and R. F. Streater. 2002 [137] "Hydrodynamics in an External Field", with M. R. Grasselli, "Reports on Mathematical Physics", 50, 13--40, 2002. [138] "Fock space decomposition of L\'evy processes", pp 242--246, Mini--proceedings: 2nd MaPhySto Conference on Levy Processes, Theory and Applications, Ed. Lars Madsen, Miscellanea no. 22, 2002. Aarhus University. Now on the archives, math-PR/0307243. 2003 [139] Corrections to Fluid Dynamics, Open Systems and Information Dynamics, 10, 3-30. The paper can be read at the archive, math--ph/0105013. 2004 [140] "Duality in Quantum Information Geometry, Open Systems and Information Dynamics", 11, 71--77. This paper is available in the archives math--ph/0308037. [141] "No production of entropy in the Euler fluid, Nonlocal Elliptic and Parabolic Problems", "Banach Center Publs". 66, 305--315; available from the the archives nlin.CG/0310008. [142] "Quantum Orlicz Spaces in Information Geometry", talk presented at the "36 th Conf on Mathematical Physics, Torun. Open Systems and Information Dynamics", 11, 350-375. Available in the archives, math--ph/0407046. 2007 [143] Book, "Lost Causes in and beyond Physics."; published in the series, "Philosophy of Physics.", Springer--Verlag, 2007. 2008 [144] The Banach manifold of quantum states, in Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Statistics, editors P. Gibilisco, E. Riccomagno, M.--P. Rogantin and H. P. Wynn, dedicated to Giovanni Pistone, Cambridge University Press, 2007. [145] "The set of states modelled on an Orlicz space", in the proceedings of the Nottingham conference, (in honour of V. Belavkin) July, 2006. In "Quantum Stochastics and Information", edited by V Belavkin and M. Guta, World Scientific, pages 99-109 2009 [146] Book, "Statistical Dynamics, a stochastic approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics"; second and enlarged edition, Imperial College Press

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