Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have come to be simply ignored.
Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Most important, though, Carroll wants readers to see how remarkable the questions quantum mechanics poses are in-and-of-themselves.A Science News favorite science book of 2019Īs you read these words, copies of you are being created. In a remarkable chapter, Carroll presents a number of the Many World's competitor interpretations (including QBIsm) in a wonderfully fair and balanced way. convincing people is not Carroll's only intention-which is the books' greatest charm. I'd like to be able to say that I came away convinced of Carroll's argument that the Many Worlds interpretation is the right way to view the world. It works at a slightly higher level and might prove challenging for those who've never seen the topic at all.
It is worth noting, however, that this book does not seem aimed at folks who are entirely new to the subject. Carroll expertly takes his readers through the conundrum quantum mechanics dumps into the laps of scientists. Those skills are on ample display in the new book as well. As his previous books have demonstrated, Carroll is an excellent guide through the frontiers of physics for interested laypeople. in straight-forward language, Carroll keeps his justification for the Many Worlds view grounded in principles like simplicity and economy of description that scientists should all agree on. What makes Carroll's new project so worthwhile.is that.he offers us a cogent, clear and compelling guide to the subject while letting his passion for the scientific questions shine through every page.
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