The infamous boundary
Subtitle: seven decades of heresy in quantum physics
By: David Wick ; with a mathematical appendix by William Faris.
Publisher: Copernicus
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Quantum theory -- History.
Description: Although quantum mechanics has predicted an extraordinary range of phenomena with unprecedented accuracy, it remains controversial. Bohr and Heisenberg pronounced it "a complete theory" in 1927, but Einstein never accepted it, and as late as 1989 John Bell charged it with dividing the world of physics. David Wick traces the history of this controversy and shows how it affects our very conception of what a scientific theory is all about.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and index.