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Oscar Zarate,J.P.McEvoy

Quantum Theory

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics.
At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's “uncertainty principle”, there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics.
Introducing Quantum Theory takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger. Each contributed at least one crucial concept to the theory. The puzzle of the wave-particle duality is here, along with descriptions of the two questions raised against Bohr's “Copenhagen Interpretation” — the famous “dead and alive cat” and the EPR paradox. Both remain unresolved.
382 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
Publisher
Icon Books
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    👍Worth reading

    Excellent choice of topics

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  • Diana Luciushas quoted2 years ago
    There is hardly any period in the history of science in which so much has been clarified by so few in so short a time.
  • Siwaar Djebbihas quoted2 years ago
    Newton’s mechanics and Maxwell’s electromagnetism
  • Laman Valizadahas quoted5 years ago
    ) The Newtonian synthesis implied that all motion had a cause. If a body exhibited motion, one could always figure out what was producing the motion. This is simply cause and effect, which nobody really questioned.
    3) If the state of motion was known at one point – say the present – it could be determined at any other point in the future or even the past. Nothing was uncertain, only a consequence of some earlier cause. This was determinism

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