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How physics confronts realityEinstei...

Bohr, Niels, (1885-1962.)

How physics confronts realityEinstein was correct, but Bohr won the game /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How physics confronts realityRoger G. Newton.
Reminder of title:	Einstein was correct, but Bohr won the game /
Author:	Newton, Roger G.
Published:	Singapore ;World Scientific Pub. Co.,c2009.
Description:	ix, 147 p. :ill.
Subject:	Quantum theoryHistory.
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7328#t=toc
ISBN:	9789814277044 (electronic bk.)

How physics confronts realityEinstein was correct, but Bohr won the game /
Newton, Roger G.

How physics confronts realityEinstein was correct, but Bohr won the game /[electronic resource] :Roger G. Newton. - Singapore ;World Scientific Pub. Co.,c2009. - ix, 147 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index.

This book recalls, for nonscientific readers, the history of quantum mechanics, the main points of its interpretation, and Einstein's objections to it, together with the responses engendered by his arguments. Most popular discussions on the strange aspects of quantum mechanics ignore the fundamental fact that Einstein was correct in his insistence that the theory does not directly describe reality. While that fact does not remove the theory's counterintuitive features, it casts them in a different light. Context is provided by following the history of two central aspects of physics : the elucidation of the basic structure of the world made up of particles, and the explanation, as well as the prediction, of how objects move. This history, prior to quantum mechanics, reveals that whereas theories and discoveries concerning the structure of nature became increasingly realistic, the laws of motion, even as they became more powerful, became more and more abstract and remote from intuitive notions of reality. Newton's laws of motion gained their abstract power by sacrificing direct and intuitive contact with real experience. Arriving 250 years after Newton, the break with a direct description of reality embodied in quantum mechanics was nevertheless profound.

Electronic reproduction.
Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Co.,
2009.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

ISBN: 9789814277044 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

456335
Bohr, Niels,
1885-1962.Subjects--Topical Terms:

191103
Quantum theory
--History.

LC Class. No.: QC173.98

Dewey Class. No.: 530.12

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