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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum (Paperback)
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum (Paperback)
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'Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory ever
formulated. The only problem with it, argues Lee Smolin, is that it
is wrong ... a fount of provocative ideas ... lucid, upbeat and,
finally, optimistic' Graham Farmelo, Nature 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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