What is real? : the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics / Adam Becker.
"Quantum mechanics is humanity's finest scientific achievement. It explains why the sun shines and how your eyes can see. It's the theory behind the LEDs in your phone and the nuclear hearts of space probes. Every physicist agrees quantum physics is spectacularly successful. But ask t...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue : The impossible done
- Part I. A tranquilizing philosophy. The measure of all things
- Something rotten in the eigenstate of Denmark
- Street brawl
- Copenhagen in Manhattan
- Part II. Quantum dissidents. Physics in exile
- It came from another world!
- The most profound discovery of science
- More things in heaven and earth
- Part III. The great enterprise. Reality underground
- Quantum spring
- Copenhagen versus the universe
- Outrageous fortune
- Appendix. Four views of the strangest experiment.