J. M. Jauch - Are Quanta Real?: A Galilean Dialogue (A Midland Book)
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... thought-provoking and delightful. I believe that anyone interested in natures deepest secrets would find great stimulation in this charmingly written little gem of a book. -- Douglas Hofstadter... unusual, delightful, nonmathematical book... The reader is left in enjoyment and admiration. -- Scientific AmericanThis is a wonderful book... -- American Journal of Physics... this imaginative work... elucidates the contrast between the classical, deterministic notions that seem inbred and the strange behavior of the microscopic quantum world.... by resurrecting Galileos three questing friends, Jauch is able to pose questions a student would like to ask but too often is inhibited from doing so. -- The Key ReporterAn authority on both quantum mechanics and the work of Galileo, J. M. Jauch wrote this charming discourse in imitation of Galileos celebrated dialogue Two Major Systems of the World. The dialogue form is amusing as well as rewarding and appeals to the student of quantum mechanics, the philosopher or historian of science, and the lay person.
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Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON / INDIANAPOLIS
title
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Are Quanta Real? : A Galilean Dialogue
author
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Jauch, Josef M.
publisher
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Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0253308623
print isbn13
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9780253308627
ebook isbn13
:
9780585319520
language
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English
subject
Quantum theory.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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QC174.12.J38 1989eb
ddc
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530.1/2
subject
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Quantum theory.
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Foreword and Additional Readings 1989 by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Copyright 1973 by Indiana University Press
All rights reserved
Parts of this book were published previously by Section de Physique, University of Geneva, copyright 1971, by J.M. Jauch.
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jauch, Josef M. (Josef Maria), 19141974. Are quanta real? : a Galilean dialogue / J.M. Jauch with a new foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter. p. cm. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-253-30862-3.ISBN 0-253-20545-X (pbk.) I. Quantum theory. I. Title. QCI74.12.J38 1989 530.12dc2089-15372 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Preface of the Reporter
xiii
Introduction
xv
First Day
3
Second Day
27
Third Day
49
Fourth Day
67
Notes
99
Additional Readings
107
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Foreword
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
Indiana University
It has always struck me as both odd and sad that so many people turn to science fiction or video games to be titillated by strange and eerie fantasy worlds, when the strangest and eeriest world of all is the real worldspecifically, the world of quantum phenomena, as revealed in the first third of the twentieth century. Surely, quantum mechanics is the most mysterious discovery about reality that has ever been madethe ultimate science-fiction trip, with the added bonus of being not a made-up story, but fact. And yet, how many science-fiction aficionados could clearly describe the philosophical ideas behind it? How many college graduates have ever studied it in any depth? How many physicists have ever tussled with the troubling paradoxes at its foundations?
Few experiences in my life have had as deep an intellectual impact on me as did the introductory course in quantum mechanics that I took when I was a beginning graduate student in physics at the University of Oregon. Seeing the incredible connection of invisible subatomic phenomena with some of the most beautiful ideas in all of mathematics had, at times, an overpowering effect on me. But even more striking than the beauty of the mathematical description of
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nature on this tiny scale was the fact that hit me over and over again: it is in principle impossible to construct a scale model or a visual model of an atom, because atomic-size phenomena simply have no counterparts at the size of living beingsin physicists' lingo, they are nonclassical phenomena. As living beings, therefore, we must resign ourselves to the fact that we can never form an accurate mental image of the most fundamental components and processes of the universe!
Acquiring a coherent understanding of the bizarre phenomena of which we ourselves and all things familiar to us are composed is one of the great intellectual challenges of all time. The familiar picture of an atom as a tiny sun orbited by miniature planets contains a grain of the truth, but misses just as much of it. Likewise, the picture of light as very fine waves zipping through vacuum as ripples spread across a pond contains some truth, but misleads an equal amount. The "mini-planets," as it turns out, are just as much like ripples on a pond as they are like billiard balls, and the color-carrying "waves" are just as much like billiard balls as they are like ripples on a pond. But they are like neither as much as they are like either, and that is the rub: no single image or analogy captures the full truth.
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