How physics confronts reality [[electronic resource] ] : Einstein was correct, but Bohr won the game / / Roger G. Newton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455883603321
• Autore: Newton Roger G
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-75819-5; 9786612758195; 981-4277-04-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.1209
• Soggetti: Quantum theory - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Some Quantum History; The True Revolutionaries; A New View of the Atom; Constructing a Coherent Theory; 2. Rules and Interpretations; The Measurement Problem; Entanglement; 3. Einstein's Defection; The EPR Paper; Schrödinger's Cat; Ensembles; Enter John Bell; From Micro to Macro; Was Einstein Right?; 4. From Atomism to Real Particles; Atomism in the Middle Ages; The First Scientific Revolution; Atoms Based on Science; Atoms and the Nature of Heat; The Role of Boltzmann; Einstein Enters the Picture; 5. Laws of Motion; The Great Break with Aristotle; Problems of Motion Dominate Physics The New Perspective; New Laws of Motion; 6. Fields; 7. New Particles and their Quantum Origins; Quantum Field Theory; The First New Particles; What Holds the Nucleus Together?; The New Accelerators; 8. Atoms, Inside and Out; The Energy Source of the Stars; Explaining the Origin of the Elements; Explaining Radioactivity; Properties of Solid Matter; Superconductivity; 9. Methods and Underpinnings; Experimental Methods; A New Theoretical Tool; Strange Particles; The Standard Model; Epilogue; References and Further Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book recalls, for nonscientific readers, the history of quantum mechanics, the main points of its interpretation, and Einstein's ; objections to it, together with the responses engendered by his arguments. We point out that most popular discussions on the strange aspects of quantum mechanics ignore the fundamental fact that Einstein was correct in his insistence that the theory does not directly describe reality. While that fact does not remove these counterintuitive features, it casts them in a different light."--page vi.