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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World

byJohn Gribbin

John Gribbin introduces six competing ways physicists interpret the strange mathematics and experiments of quantum mechanics. Instead of pretending that uncertainty, entanglement, measurement, and wave-particle duality have one settled explanation, he compares frameworks that make different claims about what reality is. The book explains why predictions can be extraordinarily precise even while their meaning remains disputed. Written for general readers, it offers a clear route into the conceptual puzzle at the heart of modern physics and shows how multiple “impossible” pictures can remain scientifically useful without any one becoming final.

Publisher

MIT Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

104

ISBN

9780262043236