Quantum Sense and Nonsense

• Main Author: Bricmont, Jean (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Philosophy and science.; Quantum physics.; Physics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Physics.; Quantum Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.

Permeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:  The issue of determinism. Does quantum mechanics signify the end of a deterministic word-view?  The role of the human subject or of t...

Table of Contents:

• What are the Issues raised by Quantum Mechanics?
• The First Mystery: Interference
• "Philosophical" Intermezzo I: What is Determinism?
• How do Physicists deal with Interference?
• Schrödinger's Cat and Hidden Variables
• "Philosophical" Intermezzo II: What is Wrong with "Observations"?
•  The Second Mystery: Nonlocality
• How to do "The Impossible", a Quantum Mechanics without Observers: The de Broglie-Bohm Theory
• Many Worlds
• A  Revised History of Quantum Mechanics
• The Cultural Impact of Quantum Mechanics
• Summary of the Main Theses of this Book.