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A review by bupdaddy
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
4.0
This serves as a really cool rundown of the elephant in the quantum physics room - the establishment of the idea, early in quantum physics, that measuring a particle causes something to happen, and (in extreme philosophies) the very idea that you can talk about whether the particle had any sort of reality before measurement is verboten.
It's told as a historical narrative of the problem, and the generations-long struggle to get physicists who believed reality existed/exists independent of anyone's ability to measure it be taken seriously.
Every once in a while I need to read again about the double-slit experiment, and the delayed decision experiment when single photons sent one at a time through paths interfere with each other - to remind myself how weird it all is and I really don't understand much about this whole thing.
It's told as a historical narrative of the problem, and the generations-long struggle to get physicists who believed reality existed/exists independent of anyone's ability to measure it be taken seriously.
Every once in a while I need to read again about the double-slit experiment, and the delayed decision experiment when single photons sent one at a time through paths interfere with each other - to remind myself how weird it all is and I really don't understand much about this whole thing.