Paradox Lost: Images of the Quantum

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Beyond the Ether....Pages 7-8
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics....Pages 9-10
Analysis of the Photoelectric Effect....Pages 11-14
De Broglie and Electron Waves....Pages 15-23
The Wave Function and Feynman’s Two-Slit Experiment....Pages 24-29
The Pauli Exclusion Principle: the Identity of Particles....Pages 30-31
The Schrödinger Wave Equation and the Hydrogen Atom....Pages 32-34
Critique of the Pointlike Electron....Pages 35-37
Complementary Attributes and the Uncertainty Principle....Pages 38-41
An Illustration: Polarized Light....Pages 42-46
Heisenberg and Measurement....Pages 47-49
More on Measurement....Pages 50-53
Further Reflections on the Bohr-Peierls Interpretation....Pages 54-56
Toward the Dirac Viewpoint....Pages 57-62
Feynman’s Path Integral Method....Pages 63-65
Are Fields All?....Pages 66-67
A Visit With Photons: Identity and Flexibility....Pages 68-71
Can Wave Packets Be Particles?....Pages 72-73
The Quantum Stellar Interferometer of Hanbury Brown....Pages 74-76
About the Delayed-Choige Experiment....Pages 77-81
The Illusion of Superluminal Signaling....Pages 82-89
The Meaning of Bell’s Theorem....Pages 90-93
Symmetry and Point Particles....Pages 94-101
The Quantum Mechanics of Multiparticle Systems....Pages 102-105
Atoms, Molecules, and the Periodic Table....Pages 106-112
Chemists, Pictures, and Molecular Architecture....Pages 113-117
Carbon and the Structure of Organic Molecules....Pages 118-121
Quantum Behavior in Macroscopic Systems: Beyond Wave Functions....Pages 122-126
More on Phases: The Effect of Magnetic Fields....Pages 127-131
Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena....Pages 132-140
Collective Excitations in Solids....Pages 141-143
Beyond the Frontier: Nonclassical Properties....Pages 144-149
Some Reflections on “Reality”....Pages 150-155
Reality and Other Sciences....Pages 156-157
A Final Perspective....Pages 158-161
Back Matter....Pages 163-166