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100 1  Becker, Adam,|d1984-|eauthor. 
245 10 What is real? :|bthe unfinished quest for the meaning of 
       quantum physics /|cAdam Becker. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    ix, 370 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-355) and 
       index. 
520    "Quantum mechanics is humanity's finest scientific 
       achievement. It explains why the sun shines and how your 
       eyes can see. It's the theory behind the LEDs in your 
       phone and the nuclear hearts of space probes. Every 
       physicist agrees quantum physics is spectacularly 
       successful. But ask them what quantum physics means, and 
       the result will be a brawl. At stake is the nature of the 
       Universe itself. What does it mean for something to be 
       real? What is the role of consciousness in the Universe? 
       And do quantum rules apply to very small objects like 
       electrons and protons, but not us? In What is Real?, Adam 
       Becker brings to vivid life the brave researchers whose 
       quest for the truth led them to challenge Bohr: David Bohm,
       who picked up Einstein's mantle and sought to make quantum
       mechanics deterministic, all while being hounded by the 
       forces of McCarthyism; Hugh Everett, who argued that 
       everything, big and small, must be governed by the same 
       rules; and John Bell, who went to great lengths to 
       eradicate the power of the god-like observer from the core
       of quantum physics. And they paid dearly, their 
       reputations, careers, and sometimes lives ruined 
       completely. But history has been kinder to them than their
       contemporaries were. As Becker shows, the brave 
       intellectual giants have inspired a growing army of 
       physicists and philosophers intent both on making a 
       philosophically more satisfying theory of the universe and
       a more useful one as well. A gripping story of some of 
       humanity's greatest ideas and the high cost with which 
       many have pursued them, What is Real? is intellectual 
       history at its passionate best"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Quantum theory|xHistory.