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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974349203321

Autore

Grandy David

Titolo

Everyday quantum reality / / David A. Grandy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-97571-4

9786612975714

0-253-00475-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Classificazione

33.23

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Reality

Life

Quantum theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Quantum uncertainty -- Wave-particle duality -- Two everyday analogues -- The double-slit experiment -- Double-slit analogues -- Everyday superposition -- The witness of music -- Everyday relationality -- Observer-created reality -- Wide-open reality -- Nonlocality -- Quantum play, quantum sorrow.

Sommario/riassunto

Most people have heard about quantum physics and its remarkable, well-nigh bizarre claims. And most people would assume that quantum reality describes a world quite different from ours. In this book, David A. Grandy shows that one can find quantum puzzles, or variations thereof, in the backyard of everyday experience. What disappears in transferring quantum theory to the everyday is the theory's mathematical formalism, but that need not imply a loss of analytic rigor. If quantum reality is truly as elemental and ubiquitous as many thinkers suggest, then alternative or complementary perspectives ought to be possible, and with the proliferation of such perspectives, a more fully rounded understanding of quantum reality and everyday reality might emerge. Everyday Quantum Reality is a step in that direction."