Paperback / softback. New. By questioning the validity of some of our basic concepts, such as space, object and causality, quantum physics contributes to the dramatic changes taking place in our world picture. "Veiled Reality" offers nonspecialists an accessible perspective on basic problems in the foundations of physics. ISBN 081334087x 9780813340876 [GB]

ISBN10: 081334087X, ISBN13: 9780813340876, [publisher: Westview Press Jan 2003] Softcover Neuware - While quantum mechanics appears as being the most basic element of contemporary physics, its meaning remains mysterious to the very physicists who make use of it, and is acknowledged as such by all those among them who care about such questions. The final message of the book--stemming from a careful, comprehensive analysis--is that this apparent obscurity is there to stay, in the sense that what quantum mechanics (and therefore the whole of physics) describes in detail is not what could be consistently referred to as 'man-independent reality.' It is essentially what philosophers call 'empirical reality,' that is, reality as seen through the 'colored glasses' or our sensorial equipment and our possibilities of action. Of mind-independent reality we perceive, at best, some distorted general structures. It is veiled.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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Westview Press, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 500 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. 2003. Westview Press ISBN 081334087X 9780813340876 [GB]

ISBN10: 081334087X, ISBN13: 9780813340876, [publisher: Westview Press Jan 2003] Softcover Neuware - While quantum mechanics appears as being the most basic element of contemporary physics, its meaning remains mysterious to the very physicists who make use of it, and is acknowledged as such by all those among them who care about such questions. The final message of the book--stemming from a careful, comprehensive analysis--is that this apparent obscurity is there to stay, in the sense that what quantum mechanics (and therefore the whole of physics) describes in detail is not what could be consistently referred to as 'man-independent reality.' It is essentially what philosophers call 'empirical reality,' that is, reality as seen through the 'colored glasses' or our sensorial equipment and our possibilities of action. Of mind-independent reality we perceive, at best, some distorted general structures. It is veiled.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2003]
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ISBN10: 081334087X, ISBN13: 9780813340876, [publisher: Westview Press] Softcover reprint edition. 500 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]