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Quantum Mechanics and Experience

By David Z Albert

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0674741137, 9780674741133, 0674741129, 9780674741126
LCC
QC39 .A4 1992
Open Library ID
OL15104242M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9334718 bytes)
Pages
222\219
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature. It has literally been called into question since then whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs, or even about the very contents of our thoughts. A new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science. This book is an original and provocative investigation of that challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. It is a lucid and self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics, accessible to anyone with a high school mathematics education, and at the same time a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of that subject, some of which are due to the author himself.

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