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A Nearly Forgotten Man of Many Universes
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, by Peter Byrne
• December 9, 2010
• 1,500 Words • Leave a Comment
Quantum mechanics (hereinafter QM) is famously odd. As Peter Byrne notes in this book: The measurement problem is especially knotty. Down in the subatomic realm, each of the particles that constitute matter is smeared out over a volume of space in a manner described mathematically by a "wave function." When an observer interacts with this... Read More
The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, by Gino Segrè
• July 1, 2008
• 2,800 Words • Leave a Comment
Who can ever tire of learning about the great discoveries in physics during the first forty years of the twentieth century, and about the men and women who were responsible? The benchmark texts are the surveys and biographies written by the late physicist and historian Abraham Pais, though all the essentials are gathered in a... Read More
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About John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. His most recent book, published by VDARE.com com is FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle).His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.