Nature loves to hide: quantum physics and reality, a western perspective
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Main Author: Malin, Shimon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York World Scientific 2012
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
It is naturally important for any of us to have a correct view of the universe we are in. Having realized that the Newtonian world-view is untenable, this book joins others that are searching for an alternative world-view. It is unique in using quantum physics to promote this search. One aim of the book is to present a lucid exposition of quantum mechanics in terms accessible to the general reader. Another aim is to show that realism (the belief that the outside world exists "from its own side" regardless of acts of consciousness) and locality (the belief that nothing moves faster than light)
Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE The Quandary; 1. Mach's Shadow; 1. The New Quantum Mechanics; 2. The Legacy of Ernst Mach; 3. "It Is the Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe"; 4. Leaving Mach Behind; 2. Einstein's Dilemma; 1. "God Does Not Play Dice"; 2. What Is Real?; 3. The Mechanistic Universe; 4. What Is Time?; 5. Special Relativity: The Basic Postulates; 6. The Relativity of Simultaneity; 7. An Ultimate Speed; 8. The Eternal Present; 9. The Case for Strict Causality; 3. The Call of Complementarity; 1. Bohr Introduces the Framework of Complementarity
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