Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

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 ter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bricmont, Jean (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Physicists in Wonderland
  • The First Mystery: Interference and Superpositions
  • “Philosophical” Intermezzo
  • The Second Mystery: Nonlocality
  • The de Broglie-Bohm Theory
  • Are There any Alternative Theories?
  • Revisiting the History of Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Mechanics and Our "Culture".