Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

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Publisher Description

A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds of contemporary physics

Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behavior of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science: it has been plagued by intense disagreements between its inventors, strange paradoxes, and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's Schrödinger's cat--a creature that is simultaneously dead and alive--or a belief that the world does not exist independently of our observations of it, quantum theory challenges our fundamental assumptions about reality.

In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. There is more to quantum physics, waiting to be discovered. Our task--if we are to have simple answers to our simple questions about the universe we live in--must be to go beyond quantum mechanics to a description of the world on an atomic scale that makes sense.

In this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed our understanding of the universe, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that the quantum world presents. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories that might solve these problems, guiding us towards a vision of the quantum that embraces common sense realism.

If we are to have any hope of completing the revolution that Einstein began nearly a century ago, we must go beyond quantum mechanics to find a theory that will give us a complete description of nature. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin brings us a step closer to resolving one of the greatest scientific controversies of our age.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2019
April 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
8.8
MB

Customer Reviews

johnny on the spot ,

Uncertainty is alive and well

I have been reading books on physics for 40 years. Nearly all the authors have brandished their view of reality and proclaimed their Ideas about all the things THEY know. Lee Smolin is different. Smolin confronts how little we know at all.

While Bohr unequivocally viewed reality as merely a description. Smolin seems to think, deep down, there is an objective construct deeper than that. He, like Albert Einstein preferred to believe our existence is rooted in something other than description unto itself. I don’t know who is right. But while quantum behavior has been well tested, the recursive philosophy of its founders may not be the ultimate path.

Smolin’s skepticism may be the ultimate truth to Bohr’s unshakable beliefs. Because as Bohr and Heisenberg posited, uncertainty rules. You can be sure and still be wrong.

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