Quantum Enigma Physics Encounters Consciousness

Name: Quantum Enigma Physics Encounters Consciousness
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ISBN: 9780195342505

ISBN-10: 019534250X

ISBN-13: 9780195342505

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Authors: Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner

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In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the foremost objectors to it. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all of this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and anecdotes about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, with an emphasis on what is and what is not speculation. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English




Presenting the Enigma



Einstein Called It "Spooky"-and I Wish I Had Known



The Visit to Neg Ahne Poc: A Quantum Parable



Our Newtonian Worldview: A Universal Law of Motion



All the Rest of Classical Physics Hello Quantum Mechanics



How the Quantum Was Forced on Physics



Schrodinger's Equation: The New Universal Law of Motion



One-Third of Our Economy



Our Skeleton in the Closet



Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen



Schrodinger's Controversial Cat



Seeking a Real World: EPR



Spooky Actions: Bell's Theorem



What's Going On? Interpreting the Quantum Enigma



The Mystery of Consciousness



The Mystery Meets the Enigma



Consciousness and the Quantum Cosmos


Suggested Reading


Index