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Quantum Entanglement (Paperback)
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Quantum Entanglement (Paperback)
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it
contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of
reality. Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of
common sense. (Think of Schroedinger's Cat, famously both dead and
alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs
in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is
that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing
them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum
entanglement-called by Einstein "spooky action at a
distance"-rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning
and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement
mystical, or just mystifying? In this volume in the MIT Press
Essential Knowledge series, Jed Brody equips readers to decide for
themselves. He explains how our commonsense assumptions impose
constraints-from which entangled particles break free. Brody
explores such concepts as local realism, Bell's inequality,
polarization, time dilation, and special relativity. He introduces
readers to imaginary physicists Alice and Bob and their photon
analyses; points out that it's easier to reject falsehood than
establish the truth; and reports that some physicists explain
entanglement by arguing that we live in a cross-section of a
higher-dimensional reality. He examines a variety of viewpoints
held by physicists, including quantum decoherence, Niels Bohr's
Copenhagen interpretation, genuine fortuitousness, and QBism. This
relatively recent interpretation, an abbreviation of "quantum
Bayesianism," holds that there's no such thing as an absolutely
accurate, objective probability "out there," that quantum
mechanical probabilities are subjective judgments, and there's no
"action at a distance," spooky or otherwise.
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