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This Quantum World

  • Welcome
  • The author
  • Papers and Presentations on Foundations of Physics
  • Papers and Presentations on Physics and Indian Philosophy
  • The textbook
    • From the preface to the first edition
    • Preface to the second edition
  • 1 The Mystique
    • 0 Probability
    • 1 Bell’s theorem
    • 2 Rules of the game
    • 3 A scattering event
    • 4 Two slits
    • 5 Bomb testing
    • 6 A quantum game
    • 7 The GHZ experiment
    • 8 The ESW experiment
    • 9 Influencing the past?
    • 10 Identical bosons
    • 11 An ancient conundrum
    • 12 Quantum statistics
    • 13 Quantum coins and dice
  • 2 The Technique
    • 1 Beginnings
    • 2 Complex numbers
    • 3 The Schrödinger equation
    • 4 The fuzziness relation
    • 5 Quantization of energy
    • 6 The hydrogen atom
    • 7 Classical mechanics in a nutshell
    • 8 From classical to quantum
    • 9 Beyond “either-or”
    • 10 Compatibility
    • 11 Quantum states (output)
    • 12 Quantum states (input)
    • 13 Whence those “rules of the game”?
    • 14 The meaning of mass
    • 15 Why special relativity? (I)
    • 16 Why special relativity? (II)
    • 17 The principle of least action
    • 18 From quantum to classical (effects)
    • 19 From quantum to classical (causes)
    • 20 Spin, Zeno, and the stability of matter
    • 21 Entanglement, Bell revisited
    • 22 Going relativistic
    • 23 The Standard Model
  • 3 The Critique
    • 1 The standard axioms
    • 2 Time symmetric quantum mechanics
    • 3 Strategy of interpretation
    • 4 The two-slit experiment revisited
    • 5 The importance of detectors
    • 6 Spatial aspects of the quantum world
    • 7 The macroworld
    • 8 Particles
    • 9 Manifestation
    • 10 The Aharonov–Bohm effect
    • 11 The classical limit
    • 12 An infinite force
    • 13 Why the laws of physics are just so
    • 14 Fine tuning
    • 15 Quanta and Vedanta
    • 16 Invariant speed and local conservation
    • 17 A tale of two worlds

The textbook

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From the preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

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