Quantum Strangeness
Wrestling with Bell’s Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
A physicist’s efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at the heart of modern society. Quantum mechanics is one of our most valuable forecasters-a “great predictor.” It has immeasurably altered our conception of the natural world. Its philosophical implications are earthshaking. But quantum mechanics steadfastly refuses to speak of many things; it deals in probabilities rather than giving explicit d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549301 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262549301 |
| Author: | George S. Greenstein, David Kaiser |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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This is one of the finest books I have read on quantum mechanics: lucid and careful, but also entertaining, honest, and generous. It gets to the core of the matter, exposing the strangeness we perceive withing quantum theory. George Greenstein doesn’t pretend to give you the answers, but he does something more valuable: he reveals the right questions.–Phillip Ball, author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You knew About Quantum Physics is Different–
George Greenstein tried for a long time to develop a clear understanding of why Bell’s inequalities are important, and one day he had, as he says, an epiphany. We must thank him for sharing with the reader the long and difficult path that led him to his final clarification.
–Alain Aspect, Professor at Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Universite Paris-Saclay–About The Author
George S. Greenstein
George Greenstein is Sidney Dillon Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Amherst College. He is the author of Frozen Star- Of Pulsars, Black Holes, and the Nature of Stars, The Symbiotic Universe- Life and Mind in the Cosmos, The Quantum Challenge- Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (with Arthur Zajonc), and other books.
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of several award-winning books on the history of science, including Quantum Legacies- Dispatches from an Uncertain World, and the editor of Becoming MIT- Moments of Decision (MIT Press). His work has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.
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