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A much needed book by a leading figure in quantum foundations
Entertaining reading with a clear no-nonsense style
Accessible to all those with a basic grounding in quantum mechanics
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- Bell's Inequalities
- Conceptual Issues in Quantum Physics
- Contextuality in Quantum Physics
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
- History of Quantum Mechanics
- Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
- Non Locality in Quantum Mechanics
- Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
- Realism in Quantum Physics
- de Broglie-Bohm Theory
Reviews
“I wish this book had been around already when I was a student. It is a must read for anyone who seriously cares about understanding what our ‘most fundamental scientific theories’ say about the physical world.” (Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 169, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
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IRMP, UCLouvain SST/IRMP/CGP, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Jean Bricmont
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Jean Bricmont
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25889-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25887-4Published: 19 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79856-1Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25889-8Published: 12 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 331
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy of Science