The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics [Paperback]

Provides (an)...accurate portrait of the essence of the disputes, both epistemological and technical, that characterize contemporary inquiry. This book will profit any reader-physicist, mathematician, philosopher, or civilian-who wants a comprehensive and intelligible survey of this pesky episode in fundamental physical theory. -CHOICE
I have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone interested in the history, philosophy or sociology of science, and it is worth adding to the library shelf on quantum theory. -PHYSICS WORLD
Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it a complete theory in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the world of physics. David Wick traces the history of this controversy and shows how it affects our very conception of what a scientific theory is all about.1. Prologue I: Atoms.- 2. Prologue II: Quanta.- 3. Revolution, Part I: Heisenbergs Matrices.- 4. Revolution, Part II: Schr?dingers Waves.- 5. Uncertainty.- 6. Complementarity.- 7. The Debate Begins.- 8. The Impossibility Theorem.- 9. EPR.- 10. The Post-War Heresies.- 11. Bells Theorem.- 12. Dice Games and Conspiracies.- 13. Testing Bell.- 14. Loopholes.- 15. The Impossible Observed.- 16. Paradoxes.- 17. Philosophies.- 18. Principles.- 19. Opinions.- 20. Speculations.- PostScript.- Appendix by William Faris.- Notes.Springer Book Archives