The Infamous Boundary

Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics

David Wick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

1996 | 1st Corrected ed. 1995. Corr. 2nd printing 1998
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-94726-6 (ISBN)

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Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it "a complete theory" in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the world of physics. David Wick traces the history of this controversy and shows how it affects our very conception of what a scientific theory is all about.

1. Prologue I: Atoms.- 2. Prologue II: Quanta.- 3. Revolution, Part I: Heisenberg’s Matrices.- 4. Revolution, Part II: Schrödinger’s Waves.- 5. Uncertainty.- 6. Complementarity.- 7. The Debate Begins.- 8. The Impossibility Theorem.- 9. EPR.- 10. The Post-War Heresies.- 11. Bell’s Theorem.- 12. Dice Games and Conspiracies.- 13. Testing Bell.- 14. Loopholes.- 15. The Impossible Observed.- 16. Paradoxes.- 17. Philosophies.- 18. Principles.- 19. Opinions.- 20. Speculations.- PostScript.- Appendix by William Faris.- Notes.

Mitarbeit	Anhang von: W. Faris
Zusatzinfo	51 Illustrations, black and white; 332 p. 51 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	0-387-94726-4 / 0387947264
ISBN-13	978-0-387-94726-6 / 9780387947266
Zustand	Neuware