Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-79856-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 331 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at it, or whether quantum systems need an observer to acquire definite properties. The author’s inimitable and even humorous style makes the book a pleasure to read while bringing a new clarity to many of the longstanding puzzles of quantum physics.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bricmont, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Physicists in Wonderland.- The First Mystery: Interference and Superpositions.- “Philosophical” Intermezzo.- The Second Mystery: Nonlocality.- The de Broglie-Bohm Theory.- Are There any Alternative Theories?.- Revisiting the History of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Mechanics and Our "Culture".

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on statistical and mathematical physics. He is best known outside the academic world as the co-author, with Alan Sokal, of Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures), which criticizes abuses of scientific concepts by intellectuals and relativism in the philosophy of science.