The Quantum Dissidents Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
Title:
The Quantum Dissidents Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
ISBN:
9783662446621
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Edition:
1st ed. 2015.
Publication Information New:
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Physical Description:
XVI, 356 p. 26 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
Contents:
Dissidents and the Second Quantum Revolution -- Challenging the Monocracy of the Copenhagen School -- The Origin of the Everettian Heresy -- The Monocracy is Broken: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Wigner's Case -- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics -- "From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970 -- Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile -- The Monocracy is Broken: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Wigner's Case -- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics -- "From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970 -- Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. "From the streets into academia" - Political activism and the reconfiguration of physics around 1970 -- Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965-1982) -- The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile. The 1980s and Early 1990s, Research on Foundations Takes Off -- Coda: Quantum Dissidents - A Collective Biographical Profile.
Abstract:
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought this subject from the margins of physics into its mainstream. It is also a history of concepts, experiments, and techniques, and of the relationships between physics and the world at large, touching on themes such as the Cold War, McCarthyism, Zhdanovism, and the unrest of the late 1960s.
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Full Text Available From Springer Nature Physics and Astronomy 2015 Packages
Language:
English