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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin (Paperback, 2020)
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A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee Smolin, 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141979168
eBay Product ID (ePID)23046619706
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameEinstein's Unfinished Revolution: the Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience, Physics
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
AuthorLee Smolin
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight258 g
Item Width129 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorLee Smolin
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