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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum (Hardcover)
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Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics,
have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and
fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world
itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which
forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary
particles to the behaviour of materials. While quantum mechanics is
currently our best theory of nature at an atomic scale, it has many
puzzling qualities - qualities that preclude realism and therefore
give an incomplete description of nature. Rather than question this
version of quantum mechanics, however, whole groups of physicists
have embraced it as correct and rejected realism. Subscribing to a
kind of magical thinking, they believe that what is real is far
beyond the world we perceive: indeed, that the 'true' world is
hidden from our perception. Back in the 1920s Einstein, both a
realist and a physicist, believed that it was necessary to go
beyond quantum mechanics to discover what was missing from a true
theory of the atoms. This was Einstein's unfinished mission, and it
is Lee Smolin's too. Not only will this new model of quantum
physics form the basis of solutions to many of the outstanding
problems of physics, but, crucially, it is a theory that is realist
in nature. At a time when science is under attack, and with it the
belief in a real world in which facts are either true or false,
never has the importance of building science on the correct
foundations been more urgent.
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