It’s Real (If You Think It Is): The Quantum Enigma - Britannica Blog
By FRANK WILSON
I just finished reading Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness (Oxford University Press) by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. It’s one of those books that you know, even as you’re reading it, you’re going to have read again. Based largely on a course Rosenblum and Kuttner teach to non-science students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the material is very well presented, and I now understand quantum physics better than I ever have before, but I won’t really grasp it until I read through certain chapters slowly and more carefully. Even so, I understood enough to appreciate the point of the book.
The enigma referred to in the title has nothing to do with the science of quantum mechanics: “The experimental results we report and our explanation of them with quantum theory are completely undisputed.” Quantum theory is apparently the most successful in all of science. None of its predictions has ever been proved wrong and a third of our economy is based on it.
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