{"product_id":"9783319652702","title":"Quantum Sense and Nonsense","description":"\u003cp\u003ePermeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe issue of determinism\u003c\/i\u003e. Does quantum mechanics signify the end of a deterministic word-view?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe role of the human subject or of the \"observer\" in science\u003c\/i\u003e. Since Copernicus, science has increasingly tended to dethrone Man from his formerly held special position in the Universe. But quantum mechanics, with its emphasis on the notion of observation, may once more have given a central role to the human subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe issue of locality\u003c\/i\u003e. Does quantum mechanics imply that instantaneous actions at a distance exist in Nature?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages the author offers a variety of views and answers - bad as well as good - to these questions. The reader will be both entertained and enlightened by Jean Bricmont's clear and incisive arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat are the Issues raised by Quantum Mechanics?.- The First Mystery: Interference.- \"Philosophical\" Intermezzo I: What is Determinism?.- How do Physicists deal with Interference?.- Schrödinger's Cat and Hidden Variables.- \"Philosophical\" Intermezzo II: What is Wrong with \"Observations\"?.-  The Second Mystery: Nonlocality.- How to do \"The Impossible\", a Quantum Mechanics without Observers: The de Broglie-Bohm Theory.- Many Worlds.- A  Revised History of Quantum Mechanics.- The Cultural Impact of Quantum Mechanics.- Summary of the Main Theses of this Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Bricmont (born in 1952) is a theoretical physicist and a professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He works on statistical and mathematical physics but has also written about philosophy of science. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring \u003ci\u003eFashionable Nonsense\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as \u003ci\u003eIntellectual Impostures\u003c\/i\u003e) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticize abuses of scientific concepts by postmodernist thinkers and relativism in the philosophy of science.\u003c\/p\u003e \"Quantum Sense and Nonsense goes into the quantum physics in considerably more depth ... . I would recommend this title if you want to get a distinctly different picture of quantum physics and an understanding of why, even after 80-90 years, physicists may be happy with the results of the calculations ... .\" (Brian Clegg, Popular Science, popsciencebooks.blogspot.com, March, 2018)","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42600298807371,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1782.31,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9783319652702-1.jpg?v=1783501816","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9783319652702","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}