New PDF release: The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of

By Olival Freire Junior

ISBN-10: 3662446618

ISBN-13: 9783662446614

ISBN-10: 3662511819

ISBN-13: 9783662511817

This booklet tells the attention-grabbing tale of the folks and occasions in the back of the turbulent alterations in attitudes to quantum conception within the moment 1/2 the 20th century. the massive luck of quantum mechanics as a predictive concept has been followed, from the very starting, by way of doubts and controversy approximately its foundations and interpretation. This booklet seems to be intimately at how study on foundations developed after WWII, whilst it was once revived, till the mid Nineteen Nineties, while such a lot of this examine merged into the technological promise of quantum info. it's the tale of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who introduced this topic from the margins of physics into its mainstream. it's also a historical past of thoughts, experiments, and methods, and of the relationships among physics and the realm at huge, touching on themes equivalent to the chilly battle, McCarthyism, Zhdanovism, and the unrest of the past due 1960s.

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