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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
About the Author
Preamble
Prologue: Why Didn’t Somebody Tell Me About All This Before?
Part I: The Rules of the Game
1. The Complete Guide to Quantum Mechanics (Abridged) Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know, and a Few Things You Didn’t
Nature is lumpy, not smooth and continuous
Waves are particles and particles are waves
Everything we think we know about a quantum system is supposed to be summarized in its wavefunction
No, seriously, electrons really do behave like waves
The wavefunction gives us only probabilities: in quantum mechanics we can only know what might happen, not what will happen
Quantum probability is not like classical probability
For a specific physical system or situation, there is no such thing as the ‘right’ wavefunction
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is about what we can know. It is not about what we can only hope to measure
2. Just What is This Thing Called ‘Reality’, Anyway? The Philosopher and the Scientist: Metaphysical Preconceptions and Empirical Data
3. Sailing on the Sea of Representation How Scientific Theories Work (and Sometimes Don’t)
4. When Einstein Came Down to Breakfast Because You Can’t Write a Book About Quantum Mechanics without a Chapter on the Bohr–Einstein Debate
Part II: Playing the Game
5. Quantum Mechanics is Complete So Just Shut Up and Calculate The View from Scylla: The Legacy of Copenhagen, Relational Quantum Mechanics, and the Role of Information
6. Quantum Mechanics is Complete But We Need to Reinterpret What it Says Revisiting Quantum Probability: Reasonable Axioms, Consistent Histories, and QBism
7. Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Things Statistical Interpretations Based on Local and Crypto Non-local Hidden Variables
8. Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Other Things Pilot Waves, Quantum Potentials, and Physical Collapse Mechanisms
9. Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because We Need to Include My Mind (or Should That be Your Mind?) Von Neumann’s Ego, Wigner’s Friend, the Participatory Universe, and the Quantum Ghost in the Machine
10. Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because….Okay, I Give Up The View from Charybdis: Everett, Many Worlds, and the Multiverse
Epilogue: I’ve Got a Very Bad Feeling about This
Appendix: Realist Propositions and the Axioms of Quantum Mechanics
Acknowledgements
List of Figure Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Preamble
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Complete Guide to Quantum Mechanics (Abridged)
Chapter 2: Just What is This Thing Called ‘Reality’, Anyway?
Chapter 3: Sailing on the Sea of Representation
Chapter 4: When Einstein Came Down to Breakfast
Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics is Complete So Just Shut Up and Calculate
Chapter 6: Quantum Mechanics Is Complete But We Need to Reinterpret What it Says
Chapter 7: Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Things
Chapter 8: Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete So We Need to Add Some Other THINGS
Chapter 9: Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because We Need to Include My Mind (Or Should That Be Your Mind?)
Chapter 10: Quantum Mechanics is Incomplete Because…. Okay, I Give Up
Epilogue: I’ve Got a Very Bad Feeling About This
Bibliography
Index
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