Quantum theory predicts experimental results brilliantly but simultaneously raises difficult
conceptual issues. Paradoxes such as Schrödinger's cat, the EPR paradox, or the …

Why did Einstein tirelessly study unified field theory for more than 30 years? In this book, the
author argues that Einstein believed he could find a unified theory of all of nature's forces by …

In 1956, Hugh Everett, then a PhD student at Princeton, proposed his “relative state”
formulation of quantum mechanics. John Wheeler, who was Everett's advisor, recognized …

According to the standard view, the so-called 'Copenhagen interpretation'of quantum
mechanics originated in discussions between Bohr and Heisenberg in 1927, and was …

David Bohm has often been considered unable to understand the meaning of the quantum
revolution as well as its radical metaphysical implications. Similarly, his pilot-wave theory …

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close
female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956. They provide a background to his causal …

Léon Rosenfeld (1904-1974) was a remarkable, many-sided physicist of exceptional
erudition. He was at the center of modern physics and was well-known as Niels Bohr's close …

This paper makes a collective biographical profile of a sample of physicists who were
protagonists in the research on the foundations of quantum physics circa 1970. We study the …

This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was
brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on …

Abstract When David Bohm published his alternative theory of quantum mechanics in 1952,
it was not received well; a recurring criticism was that it formed a reactionary attempt to …