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The Atomic World Spooky? It Ain't Necessarily So! - Emergent Quantum Mechanics, How the Classical Laws of Nature Can Conspire to Cause Quantum-Like Behaviour (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Atomic World Spooky? It Ain't Necessarily So! - Emergent Quantum Mechanics, How the Classical Laws of Nature Can Conspire to Cause Quantum-Like Behaviour (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The present book takes the discovery that quantum-like behaviour is
not solely reserved to atomic particles one step further. If
electrons are modelled as vibrating droplets instead of the usually
assumed point objects, and if the classical laws of nature are
applied, then exactly the same behaviour as in quantum theory is
found, quantitatively correct! The world of atoms is strange and
quantum mechanics, the theory of this world, is almost magic. Or is
it? Tiny droplets of oil bouncing round on a fluid surface can also
mimic the world of quantum mechanics. For the layman - for whom the
main part of this book is written - this is good news. If the
everyday laws of nature can conspire to show up quantum-like
phenomena, there is hope to form mental pictures how the atomic
world works. The book is almost formula-free, and explains
everything by using many sketches and diagrams. The mathematical
derivations underlying the main text are kept separate in a -peer
reviewed - appendix. The author, a retired professor of Flight
Mechanics and Propulsion at the Delft University of Technology,
chose to publish his findings in this mixed popular and scientific
form, because he found that interested laymen more often than
professional physicists feel the need to form visualisations of
quantum phenomena.
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