Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

by Jean Bricmont

Book Overview

This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319258877
• ISBN13: 9783319258874
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"