- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; Reprint edition (Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019517559X
- ISBN-13: 978-0195175592
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'This excellent book provides patient and luminous explanations... Rosenblum and Kuttner have done a brilliant job of shocking the reader anew' --Guardian
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics and consciousness. It has long been suspected that these mysteries are somehow related: the authors treatment of this thorny and controversial issue is honest, wide-ranging, and immensely readable. The book contains some of the clearest expositions I have ever seen of the strange and paradoxical nature of the quantum world. Quantum Enigma is a pleasure to read, and I am sure it is destined to become a classic --George Greenstein, Professor of Astronomy, Amherst College, Co-author of The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
'Rosenblum and Kuttner tie together two great mysteries: consciousness and the 'quantum enigma' of how reality coalesces out of the fog of quantum possibilities... an entertaining primer on the nuts and bolts of quantum theory' --New Scientist --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics and consciousness. It has long been suspected that these mysteries are somehow related: the authors treatment of this thorny and controversial issue is honest, wide-ranging, and immensely readable. The book contains some of the clearest expositions I have ever seen of the strange and paradoxical nature of the quantum world. Quantum Enigma is a pleasure to read, and I am sure it is destined to become a classic --George Greenstein, Professor of Astronomy, Amherst College, Co-author of The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
'Rosenblum and Kuttner tie together two great mysteries: consciousness and the 'quantum enigma' of how reality coalesces out of the fog of quantum possibilities... an entertaining primer on the nuts and bolts of quantum theory' --New Scientist --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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'This excellent book provides patient and luminous explanations... Rosenblum and Kuttner have done a brilliant job of shocking the reader anew' - Guardian. 'Rosenblum and Kuttner tie together two great mysteries: consciousness and the 'quantum enigma' of how reality coalesces out of the fog of quantum possibilities... an entertaining primer on the nuts and bolts of quantum theory' - New Scientist.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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John Bell said we would be amazed. Some "thing" is in the offing but I guess that neither of these two authors will have sufficiently open minds to recognise it or accept it when it comes judging by this piece of recitation of well known facts. They display little courage to step out of their classical physics establishment, and some of their ad-hoc remarks can be considered quite critical of those workers in the field prepared to entertain that there is something beyond the Copengagen interpretation. But these two don't move it along in any meaningful way so only two stars merited merely for their "box" analysis of wave/partical duality suitable to inform 12 year olds on the basic quantum enignma.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I agree with LJ Wilson's
comments having just read this ramble through the history of quantum theory.
I found the authors treatment of Parapsychology's attempts to understand areas of consciousness which had seemed "inadmissible" or "impossible" under the previous Classical physics world-view, but which quantum theory seems more capable of encompassing, utterly inadequate.
The entire field, over 100 years of research, was dismissed in under one page......but as the first name in the list of recommended
reading is Dr Sue Blackmore, I suppose this is hardly a surprise.
Still, as they themselves seem ready to admit, there is still rather a lot to learn in the field of human consciousness.
I prefer Dean Radin's approach!
comments having just read this ramble through the history of quantum theory.
I found the authors treatment of Parapsychology's attempts to understand areas of consciousness which had seemed "inadmissible" or "impossible" under the previous Classical physics world-view, but which quantum theory seems more capable of encompassing, utterly inadequate.
The entire field, over 100 years of research, was dismissed in under one page......but as the first name in the list of recommended
reading is Dr Sue Blackmore, I suppose this is hardly a surprise.
Still, as they themselves seem ready to admit, there is still rather a lot to learn in the field of human consciousness.
I prefer Dean Radin's approach!
3 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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No-one understands Quantum Mechanics because we don't know whether light is particles and/or waves. We do know that a light stream passed through two narrow slits is apparently passing the same particles through both slits at the same time. This is the "quantum enigma". The book takes us through the history of discovering "quantums", atoms and sub-atomic particles and endlessly repeats the conclusion of first-rate scientists, that we don't know what we're dealing with but we can use it. Disturbing stuff? Half a page in an 'A' level physics book does the whole job just as well.
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