The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum PhysicsIn this book, which has its origin in a series of radio broadcasts, Paul Davies interviews eight physicists involved in debating and testing quantum theory, with radically different views of its significance. |
Contents
The strange world of the quantum | 1 |
Origins | 2 |
Waves or particles? | 5 |
What does it all mean? | 11 |
The EinsteinPodolskyRosen EPR experiment | 13 |
Bells theorem | 15 |
Aspects experiment | 17 |
The nature of reality | 20 |
Alain Aspect | 40 |
John Bell | 45 |
John Wheeler | 58 |
Rudolf Peierls | 70 |
David Deutsch | 83 |
John Taylor | 106 |
David Bohm | 118 |
Basil Hiley | 135 |
The paradox of measurement | 26 |
Schrodingers cat paradox and worse | 28 |
The pragmatic view | 31 |
The manyuniverses interpretation | 34 |
The statistical interpretation | 38 |
Glossary | 149 |
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Common terms and phrases
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