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Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 35
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Although the debate about the true nature of the quantum behavior
of atomic systems has never ceased, there are two periods during
which it has been particularly intense: the years that saw the
founding of quantum mechanics and, increasingly, these modern
times. In 1954 Max Born, on accepting the Nobel Prize for his
'fundamental researches in quantum mechanics', recalled the depth
of the disagreements that divided celebrated quantum theorists of
those days into two camps: . . . when I say that physicists had
accepted the way of thinking developed by us at that time, r am not
quite correct: there are a few most noteworthy exceptions - namely,
among those very workers who have contributed most to the building
up of quantum theory. Planck himself belonged to the sceptics until
his death. Einstein, de Broglie, and Schriidinger have not ceased
to emphasize the unsatisfactory features of quantum mechanics . . .
. This dramatic disagreement centered around some of the most funda
mental questions in all of science: Do atomic objects exist
il1dependently of human observations and, if so, is it possible for
man to understand correctly their behavior? By and large, it can be
said that the Copenhagen and Gottingen schools - led by Bohr,
Heisenberg, and Born, in particula- gave more or less openly
pessimistic answers to these questions.
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