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

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.