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Quantum Particle Illusion, The - Conceptual Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
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Quantum Particle Illusion, The - Conceptual Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
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Problems with the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics date
back to attempts by Max Born, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, as
well as many others in the 1920s to continue to employ the
classical concept of a particle in the context of the quantum
world. The experimental observations at the time and the assumption
that the classical concept of a particle was to be preserved have
led to an enormous literature on the foundations of quantum
mechanics and a great deal of confusion then and now among
non-physicists and students in any field that involves quantum
theory. It is the historical approach to the teaching of quantum
mechanics that is at the root of the problem.Spacetime is the arena
within which quantum mechanical phenomena take place. For this
reason, several Appendices are devoted to the nature of spacetime
as well as to topics that can help us understand it such as vacuum
fluctuations, the Unruh effect and Hawking radiation.Because of the
success of quantum mechanical calculations, those who wish to
understand the foundations of the theory are often given the
apocryphal advice, 'just ignore the issue and calculate'. It is
hoped that this book will help dispel some of the dismay,
frustration, and confusion among those who refuse to take to heart
this admonition.
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