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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World

John Gribbin

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Description:A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physicsRules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going in. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics.Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. He presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (which he terms “excess baggage”); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are crazier than others—but in the quantum world, being crazier does not necessarily mean being more wrong.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World. To get started finding Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physicsRules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going in. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics.Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. He presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (which he terms “excess baggage”); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are crazier than others—but in the quantum world, being crazier does not necessarily mean being more wrong.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World. To get started finding Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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