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Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? Paperback - 1994

by Alastair I. Rae


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Albert Einstein's celebrated remark that 'God does not play dice' was his response to a set of new scientific ideas now known as quantum physics. These theories threatened the ordered determinism of the Newtonian universe, presenting the radical challenge of an unstable world disturbed by our very attempts to measure or observe it. One of the prime fascinations of quantum physics is precisely the great conceptual leap it requires us to make from our conventional ways of thinking about the physical world. It introduces instead the alarming possibilities that the observer's mind is the only reality, or that there may be parallel universes. Alternatively, its very contradictions may suggest that despite its manifest successes, quantum physics still leaves us in need of a further revolution in thought and the final complete theory of the physical universe. Alastair Rae's introductory exploration has been hailed as 'a masterpiece of clarity', and offers an engaging guide to the theories on offer.

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'God', said Albert Einstein, 'does not play dice'.

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  • Title Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?
  • Author Alastair I. Rae
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 135
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date March 25, 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521467162 / 0521467160
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.31 x 0.46 in (21.51 x 13.49 x 1.17 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Legal status,, Indians of North America - Government
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93023823
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.306
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