Einstein's Moon

Name: Einstein's Moon
ISBN: 9780809239658

Bell's Theorem and the Curious Quest for Quantum Reality

by F. David Peat

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Format: 170 pages, Paperback
First published: September 1991
Publishers: Contemporary Books
Subjects: Mathematics and science·Physics·Photography·Science·Mathematics·General·Bell's theorem·Quantum theory
Language: English

In college I took physics courses but I am NOT a physicist. So I was not interested in a 'heavy-duty', mathematical discussion of Bell's theorem.

Published in 1990, this book covers the history of the development of quantum theory. Starting with Young's double slit experiment in 1805, continuing to the discovery of energy quanta, Rutherford's discovery of the emptyness of atoms (1907-1911), Bohr's planetary structure of the atom (1913), Heisenberg's development of the equations for quantum theory (and the uncertainty principle) (1925), Born's contribution to matrix mechanics, Schrodinger upending the whole thing with his new wave mechanics (1926), Bohr's objections and development of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which rejects all classical physics interpretations, and finally the resulting bitter debate between Bohr and Einstein over whether 'God plays dice with the universe.

About F. David Peat

He has worked actively as a theoretical physicist in England and Canada. But Peat's interests expanded to include psychology, particularly that of Carl Jung, art and general aspects of culture, including that of Native America. Peat is the author of many books including a biography of David Bohm, with whom Peat collaborated, books on quantum theory and chaos theory, as well as a study of Synchronicity. Since moving to the village of Pari in Italy, Peat has created the Pari Center for New Learning....

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