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Quantum
Reality
BEYOND
THE
NEW
PHYSICS
Nick
Herbert
ANCHOR
PRESS/DOUBLEDAY
Garden
City,
New
York
Contents
PREFACE
XI
1
The
Quest
for
Reality
1
2
Physicists
Losing
Their
Grip
15
3
Quantum
Theory
Takes
Charge
31
4
Facing
the
Quantum
Facts
55
5
Wave
Motion:
The
Sound
of
Music
71
6
Meet
the
Champ:
Quantum
Theory
Itself
93
7
Describing
The
Indescribable:
The
Quantum
Interpretation
Question
113
8
"And
Then
A
Miracle
Occurs":
The
Quantum
Measurement
Problem
131
9
Four
Quantum
Realities
157
10
Quantum
Realities:
Four
More
177
11
The
Einstein
Podolsky
Rosen
Paradox
199
12
Bell's
Interconnectedness
Theorem
211
13
The
Future
of
Quantum
Reality
233
appendix
I
Additional
Readings
on
Quantum
Reality
251
appendix
II
Quantum
Number
257
index
259
Preface
One
of
the
curious
features
of
modern
physics
is
that
in
spite
of
its
over
whelming
practical
ess
in
explaining
a
vast
range
of
physical
phenom
ena
from
quark
to
quasar,
it
fails
to
give
us
a
single
metaphor
for
how
the
universe
actually
works.
The
old
mechanical
metaphor
"The
world
is
a
giant
clock"
condensed
in
one
image
the
principal
features
of
Newtonian
physics—namely,
atomicity,
objectivity,
and
determinism.
However,
phys
icists
today
do
not
possess
a
single
metaphor
that
unites
in
one
image
the
principal
features
of
quantum
theory.
The
main
purpose
of
Quantum
Reality
is
to
examine
several
tentative
images
of
the
world
proposed
by
quantum
physicists.
The
search
for
a
picture
of
"the
way
the
world
really
is"
is
an
enterprise
that
transcends
the
narrow
interests
of
theoretical
physicists.
For
better
or
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for
worse,
humans
have
tended
to
pattern
their
domestic,
social,
and
political
arrangements
according