
Quantum Physics
Illusion or Reality?
Alastair I. M. Rae(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 25. March 1994
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Paperback/Softback
135 pages
978-0-521-46716-2 (ISBN)
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Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that 'God does not play dice' was his response to a set of new scientific ideas now known as quantum physics. These theories threatened the ordered determinism of the Newtonian universe, presenting the radical challenge of an unstable world disturbed by our very attempts to measure or observe it. One of the prime fascinations of quantum physics is precisely the great conceptual leap it requires us to make from our conventional ways of thinking about the physical world. It introduces instead the alarming possibilities that the observer's mind is the only reality, or that there may be parallel universes. Alternatively, its very contradictions may suggest that despite its manifest successes, quantum physics still leaves us in need of a further revolution in thought and the final complete theory of the physical universe. Alastair Rae's introductory exploration has been hailed as 'a masterpiece of clarity', and offers an engaging guide to the theories on offer.
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'Slim, lively, informal and immensely readable.' Paul Davies, The Times Higher Education SupplementMore details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 217 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
170 gr
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978-0-521-46716-2 (9780521467162)
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Preface; 1. Quantum physics; 2. Which way are the photons pointing?; 3. What can be hidden in a pair of photons?; 4. Wonderful Copenhagen?; 5. Is it all in the mind?; 6. Many worlds; 7. Is it a matter of size?; 8. Backwards and forwards; 9. Only one way forward?; 10. Illusion or reality?; Further reading; Index.