Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality; A Western Perspective

Shimon Malin

ISBN 10: 0195161092 / ISBN 13: 9780195161090

Published by Oxford University Press, USA May 2003, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality; A Western Perspective
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA May 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195161092
• ISBN 13: 9780195161090
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Mathematics

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Synopsis

In Nature Loves to Hide, physicist Shimon Malin takes readers on a fascinating tour of quantum theory--one that turns to Western philosophical thought to clarify this strange yet inescapable description of the nature of reality. Malin translates quantum mechanics into plain English, explaining its origins and workings against the backdrop of the famous debate between Niels Bohr and the skeptical Albert Einstein. Then he moves on to build a philosophical framework that can account for the quantum nature of reality. He draws out the linkage between the concepts of Neoplatonism and the more recent process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
Writing with broad humanistic insight and deep knowledge of science, and using delightful conversation with fictional astronauts Peter and Julie to explain more difficult concepts, Shimon Malin offers a profound new understanding of the nature of reality--one that shows a deep continuity with aspects of our Western philosophical tradition going back 2,500 years, and that feels more deeply satisfying, and truer, than the clockwork universe of Newton.

About the Author

Shimon Malin is a Professor of Physics at Colgate University. A leading authority on quantum mechanics, General Relativity and cosmology, and philosophy, he is the author or co-author of three books and some fifty scientific papers. He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.