QUANTUM MECHANICS AT THE CROSSROADS

Quantum mechanics is a beautiful, strange and successful theory that originated in the 1920s. The theory, which Niels Bohr regarded as finished and complete, has in the last few decades rapidly developed in unexpected directions. An intense new focus on the strang er aspects of the theory, including entanglement and nonlocality, has resulted in new perceptions of the foundations of quantum mech anics, as well as surprising new exploitations of quantum phenomena. Historians and philosophers of science have also renewed their attention ...[Llegir més]