What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

by Adam Becker

Book Overview

The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the reality underlying quantum physics as meaningless. A mishmash of solipsism and poor reasoning,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465096050
• ISBN13: 9780465096053
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"