Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics | Nick Herbert

Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics | Nick Herbert | Really Real

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	Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics Nick Herbert Anchor, 1987 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This clearly explained layman's introduction to quantum physics is an accessible excursion into metaphysics and the meaning of reality. Herbert exposes the quantum world and the scientific and philosophical controversy about its interpretation.

Excellent!

I have read numerous popular science books regarding quantum physics over time, and by far, Nick Herbert's "Quantum Reality" is by far the very best. His writing style is elegant. His exposition of quantum theory and its implications for reality is systematic and in-depth while at the same time being clear, fast paced, and easy for the layman to follow. A most enjoyable and enlightening read!

As the work is now over 20 years old, although I do not think much has changed in quantum physics or its implications for deep reality (beyond Everett's Many World's Interpretation overtaking the Bohr/Heisenberg Copenhagen Interpretation in terms of the raw number of professional physicists adhering thereto), except for much broader acceptance of Bell's Theorem and of the validity of observed instances of non-locality, an updated 2nd edition would be quite valuable.

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Really Real

The key values of this book are 1) its holistic approach to explaining quantum mechanics and 2) its "realist" (philosophically materialist) perspective on quantum mechanics. Its an extremely lucid account of quantum phenomena and quantum theory for the lay reader with excellent analogies and examples.

Reality is not what it used to be

As Nick Herbert points out early on in the book, the best kept secret of modern physicists is that they have "lost their grip on reality." Although written in the 1980s this book remains, in my opinion, the best overview of quantum physics on the market. One has to wonder why the Newtonian model of existence is still pushed so remorselessly in our schools. Evidently we are only comfortable with the blatant external appearances of life and are terrified of looking beyond that. What you cannot see...you must ignore. Nick Herbert does an excellent job of exposing that paradigm as a ridiculous self-deception.

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Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics

This is a pretty understandable
review of the subject without any serious math. I read it in conjunction
with a course on Quantum Physics that was heavy into the math, so this seemed
a little lightweight, but easy to read.

Explore the possible underlying realities

This isn't easy reading for a first quantum physics book imo, because it quickly gets to the reality interpretations of quantum physics before it discusses the physics. This can make it confusing reading, especially the first time through. If you are already knowledgeable about the quantum facts, then jump right in and explore the possible underlying realities with this book. Any discourse on the reality underlying quantum actions should be somewhat confusing - no one understands it and there are many theories.

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