![]() ![]() I could go ahead and try and summarize the ideas put forward in this book, leaving you with the impression that I understood everything he is talking about. This is where we reach a fork in the road. What is worse, Carroll writes, is that many physicists scoff at the idea of spending time and effort on understanding its foundations.Ĭarroll thinks we have made good progress with this, though, and throughout this book, he champions the Everett or Many-Worlds formulation of quantum mechanics that was developed in 1957 by Hugh Everett. And for a theory that was pretty much formulated by 1927 that is more than a bit embarrassing. ![]() They know how to use it to design new technology or predict the outcomes of experiments, but they do not truly understand it. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, written by Sean Carroll, published in Europe by Oneworld Publications in September 2019 (hardback, 368 pages)Ĭarroll’s opening salvo, and one of the main reasons to write this book, is that physicists do not understand quantum mechanics. ![]()
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