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THE INFAMOUS BOUNDARY - SEVEN DECADES OF HERESY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS
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THE INFAMOUS BOUNDARY - SEVEN DECADES OF HERESY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS Paperback - 1996

by WICK, DAVID,

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The gulf between the quantum world and the classical one is a great mystery of physics. This is an extraordinarily lively account of quantum theory debate, mainly told from the side of the heretics--Einstein, David Bohm, J.S. Bell, and others. The book explores the philosophical and physical implications, as well as personalities involved--a compelling history of the strange side of quantum physics.

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Springer, 1996. 2nd. Paperback. New/New.
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  • Title THE INFAMOUS BOUNDARY - SEVEN DECADES OF HERESY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS
  • Author WICK, DAVID,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition New
  • Pages 332
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Springer, New York
  • Date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # AME_9780387947266
  • ISBN 9780387947266 / 0387947264
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.29 x 0.73 in (23.42 x 15.98 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Quantum theory - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96018246
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.120

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Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it "a complete theory" in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the world of physics. David Wick traces the history of this controversy and shows how it affects our very conception of what a scientific theory is all about.

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Now that a visitor to a physics laboratory can be shown a solitary barium ion glowing like a tiny star caught in a bottle, skepticism about the existence of atoms seems as quaint and remote from our time as belief in a flat Earth.

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  • Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 86