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The Infamous Boundary - Seven Decades of Controversy in Quantum Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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The Infamous Boundary - Seven Decades of Controversy in Quantum Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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reprinted in the British trade journal Physics World in 1990, three
separate and 5 lengthy replies from establishment physicists were
printed in subsequent issues. For outsiders, especially scientists
who rely on physicist's theories in their own fields, this
situation is disquieting. Moreover, many recall their introduction
to quantum mechanics as a startling, if not shocking, experience. A
molecular biologist related how he had started in theoretical
physics but, after hearing the ideology of quantum mechanics,
marched straight to the Reg istrar's office and switched fields. A
colleague recalled how her undergraduate chemistry professor
religiously entertained queries from the class - until one day he
began with the words: "No questions will be permitted on today's
lecture." The topic, of course, was quantum mechanics. My father,
an organic chemist at a Midwestern university, also had to give
that dreaded annual lecture. Around age 16, I picked up a little
book he used to prepare and was perplexed by the author's tone,
which seemed apologetic to the point of pleading. It was my first
brush with the quantum theory. 6 Eventually, I went to graduate
school in physics. By then I had acquired an historical bent, which
developed out of an episode in my freshman year in college. To
relieve the tedium of the introductory physics course, I set out to
understand Einstein's theory of relativity (the so-called Special
Theory of 1905, not the later and more difficult General Theory of
1915). This went badly at first."
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