About this title: The most successful theory in all of science - and the basis of one third of our economy - says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. "Quantum Enigma" explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the ...
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Description: Fine. 019517559X Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small blue OUP stamp on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008-06-16
ISBN-13:9780195342505ISBN:019534250X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780195175592ISBN:019517559X
Description: New/New. 8vo 019517559X multiple NEW copies, NO marks Main Title: Quantum enigma: physics encounters consciousness / Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner. Published/Created: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Description: 211 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN: 019517559X (cloth: alk. paper) The most widely researched theory in 20th-century science implies that physical reality is affected by our observation of it. Physicists were forced to this conclusion the quantum enigma by what they ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780715636541ISBN:0715636545
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 288 pages. (288 pages) everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. light sometimes behaves like a particle, sometimes like a wave. objects separated by vast distances interact faster than the speed of light. this work shows how these quantum properties are being observed in larger and larger objects. b/w photos & illustrations throughout (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780715636541ISBN:0715636545
Description: New. Everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. Light sometimes behaves like a particle, sometimes like a wave. Objects separated by vast distances interact faster than the speed of light. This work shows how these quantum p... read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195342505ISBN:019534250X
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 217 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Brand new book-no defects-, *.. read more
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Description: New. In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of th... read more
Description: New. In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of th... read more
"Having never read a book specifically on quantum theory, but having the same basic exposure of any modern sf junkie, I wanted to read a pop-sci book to get a better feel for it. I thought, and still think, there is more to it than I have absorbed from various fiction sources. To this aim, I chose a balance highly rated, recently published, and good sales quantum physics book.
Alas, I failed entirely. This book just repeats the same tiny thing over and over ad nauseum and then takes the occasional tangent to gloss some historical event or personage in borderline offensively poor writing and scholarship. What I gained from this book was strictly reactionary (and not simply in the literal meaning of the word) as it stimulated my imaginative ire."
"Very informative. excellent introduction to quantum physics. At times I was falling asleep, but it keeps it entertaining enough. I feel smarter for having read it. Search youtube for "quantum double slit experiment" for a good animation explaining interference patterns."
"I found this book to be real food for thought. Rosenblum points out that Quantum probability tells us not the probability of the state of a system but rather where an observer will measure it to be. The system wasn't in that state until it was observed to be there. Quantum cosmologist John Wheeler puts it concisely: "No microscopic property is a property until it is an observe property." Quantum mechanics thus requires a conscious observer to produce physical properties.
He next deals with the very strange concept of separability. Physicists have now demonstrated conclusively that once quantum states interact with each other they remain forever linked in such a way that the state of one such state is immediately influenced by a change in state of the other system even when separated from it by long distances, thus apparently violating our belief that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. As a consequence any quantum states that have ever interacted are no longer separable and the universe is highly linked with many other parts of the universe. Physicists do not really understand this instantaneous action-at-a-distance, but it is predicted by Quantum Mechanics and has been verified experimentally.
He then turns to modern thinking about consciousness. Is consciousness more than the product of chemical reactions in the body? He states that the two great mysteries are the mystery of the existence of the world "out there" and the mystery of consciousness "in here". He claims that quantum mechanics appears to connect the two.
He then takes this mystery to the beginning of time, at the Big Bang. If a microscopic property requires a conscious observer to produce physical properties, what created the first matter? One explanation could be a consciousness outside of the universe--God. Another is that spacetime is closed back on itself and the "future" consciousness of people yet to be created were the consciousnesses that caused the original first matter to exist through the mechanism of separability.
I find it fascinating that from a scientific viewpoint Rosenblum reaches the conclusion that some consciousness was necessary to create the universe."
"A good introduction to quantum physics - the scientific field that completely redefines how we think about the universe. About as non-impenetrable as I think the topic can be. Helped me put my thoughts on the subject in order."
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