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The Copenhagen Conspiracy (Hardcover)
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The Copenhagen Conspiracy (Hardcover)
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At the close of the nineteenth century, we stood on the threshold
of one of the greatest periods of science, in which the entire
world and understanding of science would be shaken to the core and
greatly modified. This explosion of knowledge led ultimately to
that same information revolution that we live in today. Planck and
Einstein showed that light was not continuous but made of small
corpuscles that today we call photons. Einstein changed the
understanding of mechanics with his theory of relativity: airplanes
became conceivable; radio and television blossomed; and the
microelectronics industry, which drives most of modern technology,
came into being. New areas of science were greatly expanded and
developed, and one of these was quantum mechanics, which is the
story to be told here. Yet, the development of quantum mechanics
and the leadership of Niels Bohr have distorted the understanding
of quantum mechanics in a strange way. There are some who would say
that Bohr set back the real understanding of quantum mechanics by
half a century. I believe they underestimate his role, and it may
be something more like a full century. Whether we call it the
Copenhagen interpretation, or the Copenhagen orthodoxy, it is the
how for the continuing mysticism provided by Mach that is still
remaining in quantum mechanics. It is not the why. Why it
perseveres and why it was forced on the field in the first place is
an important perception to be studied. In this book, I want to
trace the development of quantum mechanics and try to uncover the
why.
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