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The Infamous Boundary : Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics /

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Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it "a complete theory" in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the worl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wick, David
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1996.
Subjects:
Physics.
Quantum theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue 1: Atoms
  • Prologue II: Quanta
  • Revolution, Part 1: Heisenberg's Matrices
  • Revolution, Part II: Schrödinger's Waves
  • Uncertainty
  • Complementarity
  • The Debate Begins
  • The Impossibility Theorem
  • The Post-War Heresies
  • Bell's Theorem
  • Dice Games and Conspiracies
  • Testing Bell
  • Loopholes
  • The Impossible Observed
  • Paradoxes
  • Philosophies
  • Principles
  • Opinions
  • Speculations
  • PostScript
  • Appendix by William Faris
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.