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Cover: 9783662511817 | The Quantum Dissidents | Olival Freire Junior | Taschenbuch | xvi
Rückseite: 9783662511817 | The Quantum Dissidents | Olival Freire Junior | Taschenbuch | xvi
Cover: 9783662511817 | The Quantum Dissidents | Olival Freire Junior | Taschenbuch | xvi
Rückseite: 9783662511817 | The Quantum Dissidents | Olival Freire Junior | Taschenbuch | xvi
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The Quantum Dissidents
Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
Taschenbuch von Olival Freire Junior
Sprache: Englisch

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This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought this subject from the margins of physics into its mainstream. It is also a history of concepts, experiments, and techniques, and of the relationships between physics and the world at large, touching on themes such as the Cold War, McCarthyism, Zhdanovism, and the unrest of the late 1960s.
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought this subject from the margins of physics into its mainstream. It is also a history of concepts, experiments, and techniques, and of the relationships between physics and the world at large, touching on themes such as the Cold War, McCarthyism, Zhdanovism, and the unrest of the late 1960s.
Über den Autor
Olival Freire, Jr. is a physicist and historian of physics. He is Associate Professor and Researcher at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and vice-president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
Zusammenfassung

Traces foundational upheavals in quantum mechanics from its post-war revival due to David Bohm to the start of the quantum information era

Makes fascinating connections to political and cultural issues of the times

Author an emininent historian of quantum physics, whose previous works have won acclaim

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Challenging the monocracy of the Copenhagen school.- The Everettian heresy.- The monocracy is broken.- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics.- Either local hidden variables or quantum theory.- Cultural revolution and the quantum dissidents.- Acceleration in research on foundations.- Quantum dissidents.- Epilogue.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Physik, Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xvi
356 S.
12 s/w Illustr.
14 farbige Illustr.
356 p. 26 illus.
14 illus. in color. With a Foreword by Silvan S. Schweber.
ISBN-13: 9783662511817
ISBN-10: 3662511819
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Freire Junior, Olival
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2015
Hersteller: Springer
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Olival Freire Junior
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,563 kg
Artikel-ID: 102876732
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