num_pages: 304
description: 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, explainingits 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 morerecent 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 withaspects of our Western philosophical tradition going back 2,500 years, and that feels more deeply satisfying, and truer, than the clockwork universe of Newton.
language: English
title: Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective
titlecomplete: Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western Perspective
genres: History, Science, Geography, Philosophy, Mathematics, Theory, Metaphysics, Physics, Nonfiction, Westerns
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Oxford University Press