Can and should be read by all physics undergraduates. Why?
So they can truly discover for themselves what's really going on.
And what's really going on is that local causality as advanced by some
of the greatest physicists of all time must now be relegated to the
proverbial "back shelf".
How did this come about? The author of this book takes us step-by-step
through a veritable minefield of reasons why and reasons why not. He
leaves "no stone unturned" and takes great pains to examine the various
opinions, prejudices, feelings and historical events surrounding the
now-famous "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen" paper of 1935 and the arguments for
and against that paper that ensued. Almost with superhuman effort.
The book which is actually a collection of more than twenty research papers that the author has written over about a twenty five year period
beginning with his first seminal work dated 1964.(It would take several years from that time on to experimentally verify the predictions of that paper but eventually they were realized and thus established Quantum Mechanics as a complete theory without any hidden varaibles whatsoever)
What makes some of these papers even more interesting to read is that they were presented to
symposia and from these one can get a sense of the tension in the meetings in which they were presented and hence can better understand the controversial nature
of this subject.
Each paper contains numerous references to the original "players" in the
field. These alone make an exciting and substantial contribution to the book.
Contrary to what Einstein and others had hoped there are no "hidden variables" left to find in order to "save" local cauaslity.
Quantum Mechanics as we know it is complete. And we humans are stuck "not knowing" certain things even though they may exist. But perhaps there is a silver lining with some of the "gifts" that "Entanglement" has to offer.
Southern Jameson West
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Essential reading for all Physicists
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un viaggio ai confini della realta' (quantistica)
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偉大なるQuantum Philosopherでもあった。
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