Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? (Canto) - Softcover

Rae, Alastair I. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521467160 ISBN 13: 9780521467162

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that 'God does not play dice' was his response to a set of new scientific ideas now known as quantum physics. These theories threatened the ordered determinism of the Newtonian universe, presenting the radical challenge of an unstable world disturbed by our very attempts to measure or observe it. One of the prime fascinations of quantum physics is precisely the great conceptual leap it requires us to make from our conventional ways of thinking about the physical world. It introduces instead the alarming possibilities that the observer's mind is the only reality, or that there may be parallel universes. Alternatively, its very contradictions may suggest that despite its manifest successes, quantum physics still leaves us in need of a further revolution in thought and the final complete theory of the physical universe. Alastair Rae's introductory exploration has been hailed as 'a masterpiece of clarity', and offers an engaging guide to the theories on offer.

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Review:

'Slim, lively, informal and immensely readable.' Paul Davies, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Book Description:

One of the prime fascinations of quantum physics is the great conceptual leap it requires us to make from our conventional ways of thinking about the physical world. Alastair Rae's introductory exploration offers an engaging guide to the theories on offer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521467160
• ISBN 13: 9780521467162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135