The book is currently out of stock
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
Authors
Parameters
Categories
More about the book
This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at it, or whether quantum systems need an observer to acquire definite properties. The author’s inimitable and even humorous style makes the book a pleasure to read while bringing a new clarity to many of the longstanding puzzles of quantum physics.
Publication
Book purchase
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics, Jean Bricmont
- Language
- Released
- 2018
We’ll notify you via email once we track it down.
Payment methods
- Title
- Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jean Bricmont
- Publisher
- Springer
- Released
- 2018
- ISBN10
- 3319798561
- ISBN13
- 9783319798561
- Category
- Physics
- Description
- This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at it, or whether quantum systems need an observer to acquire definite properties. The author’s inimitable and even humorous style makes the book a pleasure to read while bringing a new clarity to many of the longstanding puzzles of quantum physics.