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Quantum Reality: A Short Journey Through Two Mysterious Slits
The double-slit experiment has been widely discussed since the beginning of quantum mechanics. Many popular science books use the experiment to illustrate the wave-particle duality of light and matter. According to Richard Feynman, the double-slit experiment contains the only mystery of quantum mechanics. After we have unveiled the mystery, we will be able to understand quantum mechanics.
The predictions of quantum mechanics agree with the results of the double-slit experiment to astonishing precision. What, then, is the mystery? The mystery lies in understanding the startling and counterintuitive results. What do they imply for the nature of reality? How on earth does a single electron pass through two slits at the same time? Exactly what are electrons? There are already some possible pictures of quantum reality. From pilot wave, Brownian motion to many worlds and dynamical collapse, every theory claims that it gives the true picture. Which one should we believe in? Or none of them is on the right track? Can we find the real picture of the quantum world?
This book will show that, against all expectations, quantum mechanics already gives the answer. Thanks to the important work of Yakir Aharonov et al, it has been known that quantum mechanics can provide a protective method to detect what electrons are and how they pass through two slits. It turns out that microscopic particles such as electrons are indeed particles, but they move in a discontinuous and random way. For instance, in the double-slit experiment with electrons, each electron passes through the two slits at the same time in a discontinuous way. This clear and visualizable picture of quantum reality will make the mysterious quantum world comprehensible to everyone.
Book & Thoughts Reviews
This is an ambitious work that reflects admirable grip, and distinctive take, on much of the contemporary philosophy of quantum mechanics literature.
---- Reviewer of Philosophy of Science
The idea of using discontinuous motion as a realist interpretation of quantum mechanics is original.
---- Reviewer of Foundations of Physics
Its very existence is, at any rate, an excellent illustration of the extent to which physical data force us to depart from commonsense ideas when we try to depict reality “as it really is”.
---- Bernard d'Espagnat, Templeton Prize 2009 Laureate, author of Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and On Physics and Philosophy
The predictions of quantum mechanics agree with the results of the double-slit experiment to astonishing precision. What, then, is the mystery? The mystery lies in understanding the startling and counterintuitive results. What do they imply for the nature of reality? How on earth does a single electron pass through two slits at the same time? Exactly what are electrons? There are already some possible pictures of quantum reality. From pilot wave, Brownian motion to many worlds and dynamical collapse, every theory claims that it gives the true picture. Which one should we believe in? Or none of them is on the right track? Can we find the real picture of the quantum world?
This book will show that, against all expectations, quantum mechanics already gives the answer. Thanks to the important work of Yakir Aharonov et al, it has been known that quantum mechanics can provide a protective method to detect what electrons are and how they pass through two slits. It turns out that microscopic particles such as electrons are indeed particles, but they move in a discontinuous and random way. For instance, in the double-slit experiment with electrons, each electron passes through the two slits at the same time in a discontinuous way. This clear and visualizable picture of quantum reality will make the mysterious quantum world comprehensible to everyone.
Book & Thoughts Reviews
This is an ambitious work that reflects admirable grip, and distinctive take, on much of the contemporary philosophy of quantum mechanics literature.
---- Reviewer of Philosophy of Science
The idea of using discontinuous motion as a realist interpretation of quantum mechanics is original.
---- Reviewer of Foundations of Physics
Its very existence is, at any rate, an excellent illustration of the extent to which physical data force us to depart from commonsense ideas when we try to depict reality “as it really is”.
---- Bernard d'Espagnat, Templeton Prize 2009 Laureate, author of Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and On Physics and Philosophy
76 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 26, 2013
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