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Everyday Quantum Reality

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Description for Everyday Quantum Reality paperback. Quantum puzzles in everyday life Num Pages: 196 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 282.

Most people have heard about quantum physics and its remarkable, well-nigh bizarre claims. And most people would assume that quantum reality describes a world quite different from ours. In this book, David A. Grandy shows that one can find quantum puzzles, or variations thereof, in the backyard of everyday experience. What disappears in transferring quantum theory to the everyday is the theory's mathematical formalism, but that need not imply a loss of analytic rigor. If quantum reality is truly as elemental and ubiquitous as many thinkers suggest, then alternative or complementary perspectives ought to be possible, and with the proliferation ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222428
SKU
V9780253222428
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99-50

About David A. Grandy
David A. Grandy is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University and author of The Speed of Light (IUP, 2009); Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being; and (with Dan Burton) Magic, Mystery, and Science (IUP, 2004).

Reviews for Everyday Quantum Reality
"Far from being completely counterintuitive and beyond our experience, the findings of quantum physics have many analogs in everyday life, which we have simply not seen because of the grip of the classical worldview on our thinking.... Everyday Quantum Reality makes an important and original argument." —Alexander Wendt, author of Social Theory of International Politics

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