The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)

The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)

Olival Freire Junior
$115.49
Publication Date: January 16th, 2015
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9783662446614
Pages:
356
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Description

Challenging the monocracy of the Copenhagen school.- The Everettian heresy.- The monocracy is broken.- The Tausk Controversy on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Physics, Philosophy, and Politics.- Either local hidden variables or quantum theory.- Cultural revolution and the quantum dissidents.- Acceleration in research on foundations.- Quantum dissidents.- Epilogue.

About the Author

Olival Freire, Jr. is a physicist and historian of physics. He is Associate Professor and Researcher at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and vice-president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.