The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide for Students of Chemistry and Physics - Hardcover

Baggott, J.E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198555768 ISBN 13: 9780198555766

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Why is quantum theory so difficult to understand? In this book, written for modern undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemistry and physics, the author looks at the continuing debate about the meaning of quantum theory. The historical development of the theory is traced from the turn of the century through to the 1930s and the famous debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. The book examines in detail the arguments that quantum theory is incomplete, as made by Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. The development of Bell's theorem is also discussed, along with crucial experimental tests performed in the early 1980s. Alternative interpretations - pilot waves, quantum gravity, consciousness, and many worlds - are described in the closing chapter.

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Review

I can recommend it warmly. Baggott has a practised, informal, attractive style that renders the potentially turgid digestible . . . , he gives a lucid, thoughtful, and helpful account of one of this century's great conundrums. (The Times Higher Education Supplement)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198555768
• ISBN 13: 9780198555766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244