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Originally Posted by rkomar
Ha! I _just_ finished reading "Quantum" by Manjit Kumar. It's about the debate between Einstein and Bohr over the philosophical underpinnings of quantum mechanics. Einstein was a realist, and believed that particles had properties that existed whether you measured them or not. Bohr (and most of his proteges) believed that "there is no quantum reality beyond what is revealed by an act of measurement or observation" (from Kumar's book). The book is more straightforward than that quote.  |
I'll second that recommendation
I read it a few months ago and really enjoyed it. It is a good book for those of us who want a more easily understandable exposition of quantum theory and also quite interesting on the characters of the people involved and the relationships between them.