The Quantum Nature of Things

This book offers readers an entirely original and unconventional view of quantum mechanics. It is a view that accepts quantum mechanics as the natural way to think about the way nature works, rather than the view commonly expressed, especially in books on quantum physics, that quantum theory is weird and counterintuitive.

Autorentext

Terry Robinson is Emeritus Professor of Space Plasma Physics at the University of Leicester, where he obtained an M.Sc. in Experimental Space Physics and a PhD in Ionospheric Plasma Physics, before becoming a lecturer in 1982. He has had a research career at the University of Leicester of over 30 years in Space Plasma Physics, publishing over 100 papers in international refereed journals. He was awarded a personal chair in Space Plasma Physics in 1997. He has taught many undergraduate and post graduate courses, including, plasma physics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Prof. Robinson switched his research focus to quantum physics and the foundations of physics before retiring in 2016.

Inhalt

Prologue. Chapter 1: The Universal Quantum Hypothesis: Just items.Chapter 2: An Introduction to Operators. Chapter 3: Natural Number Dynamics I: The Basic Formulation. Chapter 4: Multi-category Systems: Bosons and Fermions. Chapter 5: The Single-Category System: The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics. Chapter 6: Two-Category Systems. Chapter 7: Degenerate Two-Category Systems. Chapter 8: Degenerate Three-Category Systems. Chapter 9: Interactions in Multi-Category Systems. Chapter 10: Field Itemization. CHapter 11: Phase Invariance: The Emergences of Space-Time and Wave Mechanics. Chapter 12: Natural Number Dynamics II: Time-Dependent Population Models. Chapter 13: Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.