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Quantum enigma : physics encounters consciousness / Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenblum, Bruce, author.
- Kuttner, Fred, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quantum theory.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The most successful theory in all of science - and the basis of one third of our economy - says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. 'Quantum Enigma' explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the foremost objectors to it.
- Contents:
- Presenting the enigma
- Einstein called it "Spooky"-and I wish I had known
- The visit to Neg Ahne Poc: a quantum parable
- Our Newtonian worldview: a universal law of motion
- All the rest of classical physics
- Hello quantum mechanics
- How the quantum was forced on physics
- Schrodinger's equation: the new universal law of motion
- One-third of our economy
- Our skeleton in the closet
- Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
- Schrodinger's controversial cat
- Seeking a real world: EPR
- Spooky interactions: Bell's theorem
- What's going on? Interpreting the quantum enigma
- The mystery of consciousness
- The mystery meets the enigma
- Consciousness and the quantum cosmos.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-974400-9
- 0-19-773252-6
- 0-19-803909-3
- 1-280-84493-0
- 9786610844937
- 1-4294-0277-6
- OCLC:
- 476011303
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