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Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Physics - An Overview from Modern Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Physics - An Overview from Modern Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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It may tum out that, like certain other phenomena studied by
sociologists, bouts of interest in the foundations of quantum
mechanics tend to come in 60-year cycles. It is hardly surprising
that in the first decade or so of the subject the conceptual
puzzles generated by this strange new way of looking at the world
should have generated profound interest, not just among
professional physicists themselves but also among philosophers and
informed laymen; but this intense interest was followed by a fallow
period in the forties and fifties when the physics establishment by
and large took the view that the only puzzles left were the product
either of incompetent application of the formalism or of bad
philosophy, and only a few brave individualists like the late David
Bohm dared to suggest that maybe there really was something there
after all to worry about. As Bell and Nauenberg, surveying the
scene in 1966, put it: "The typical physicist feels that [these
questions 1 have long ago been answered, and that he will fully
understand how if ever he can spare twenty minutes to think about
it. " But gradually, through the sixties and seventies, curiosity
did revive, and the last ten years or so have seen a level of
interest in foundational questions, and an involvement in them by
some of the leading figures of contemporary physics, which is
probably unparalleled since the earliest days.
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