Description: Title: Quantum Entanglement Author: Brody, Jed Publisher: MIT Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 184 Dimensions: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d Product Weight: 0.4 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780262538442 An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schr dinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement--called by Einstein "spooky action at a distance"--rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jed Brody equips readers to decide for themselves. He explains how our commonsense assumptions impose constraints--from which entangled particles break free.Brody explores such concepts as local realism, Bell's inequality, polarization, time dilation, and special relativity. He introduces readers to imaginary physicists Alice and Bob and their photon analyses; points out that it's easier to reject falsehood than establish the truth; and reports that some physicists explain entanglement by arguing that we live in a cross-section of a higher-dimensional reality. He examines a variety of viewpoints held by physicists, including quantum decoherence, Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation, genuine fortuitousness, and QBism. This relatively recent interpretation, an abbreviation of "quantum Bayesianism," holds that there's no such thing as an absolutely accurate, objective probability "out there," that quantum mechanical probabilities are subjective judgments, and there's no "action at a distance," spooky or otherwise. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}
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Book Title: Quantum Entanglement
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Topic: Physics / Quantum Theory, Logic, Physics / Relativity
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Science
Item Weight: 5 oz
Author: Jed Brody
Item Length: 7 in
Book Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
