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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Prologue: Don’t Be Afraid
Part One: Spooky
1 What’s Going On: Looking at the Quantum World
2 The Courageous Formulation: Austere Quantum Mechanics
3 Why Would Anybody Think This? How Quantum Mechanics Came to Be
4 What Cannot Be Known, Because It Does Not Exist: Uncertainty and Complementarity
5 Entangled Up in Blue: Wave Functions of Many Parts
Part Two: Splitting
6 Splitting the Universe: Decoherence and Parallel Worlds
7 Order and Randomness: Where Probability Comes From
8 Does This Ontological Commitment Make Me Look Fat? A Socratic Dialogue on Quantum Puzzles
9 Other Ways: Alternatives to Many-Worlds
10 The Human Side: Living and Thinking in a Quantum Universe
Part Three: Spacetime
11 Why Is There Space? Emergence and Locality
12 A World of Vibrations: Quantum Field Theory
13 Breathing in Empty Space: Finding Gravity within Quantum Mechanics
14 Beyond Space and Time: Holography, Black Holes, and the Limits of Locality
Epilogue: Everything Is Quantum
Appendix: The Story of Virtual Particles
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
References
Index
Copyright
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