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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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A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds
of contemporary physics Quantum physics is the golden child of
modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms,
radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic
forces to the behavior of materials. But for a century it has also
been the problem child of science: it has been plagued by intense
disagreements between its inventors, strange paradoxes, and
implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's
Schroedinger's cat--a creature that is simultaneously dead and
alive--or a belief that the world does not exist independently of
our observations of it, quantum theory challenges our fundamental
assumptions about reality. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution,
theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the
problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception
are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory
is incomplete. There is more to quantum physics, waiting to be
discovered. Our task--if we are to have simple answers to our
simple questions about the universe we live in--must be to go
beyond quantum mechanics to a description of the world on an atomic
scale that makes sense. In this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin
takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics,
introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have
transformed our understanding of the universe, before wrestling
with the puzzles and conundrums that the quantum world presents.
Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories that might
solve these problems, guiding us towards a vision of the quantum
that embraces common sense realism. If we are to have any hope of
completing the revolution that Einstein began nearly a century ago,
we must go beyond quantum mechanics to find a theory that will give
us a complete description of nature. In Einstein's Unfinished
Revolution, Lee Smolin brings us a step closer to resolving one of
the greatest scientific controversies of our age.
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