Introduction: Why do I trust my computer? |
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Acknowledgments |
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Dramatis Personae |
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Act I: Mechanical Failure |
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The mystery of the other glove |
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In which things are exactly what they are seen to be |
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15 | (2) |
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Learning through repetition |
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Coin tossing and weather forecasting |
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22 | (4) |
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26 | (4) |
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30 | (5) |
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So photons are really real, then? |
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35 | (4) |
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39 | (5) |
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44 | (4) |
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Learning to live with uncertainty |
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48 | (5) |
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53 | (2) |
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Which way did the photon go? |
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55 | (7) |
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No, but really, what really happened? |
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62 | (5) |
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How to make money from quantum mechanics |
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67 | (3) |
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The importance of being rigorous |
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70 | (2) |
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The chronic poor health of Schrodinger's cat |
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72 | (7) |
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Psychophysics, qu'est-ce que c'est? |
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Intermission: A Largely Philosophical Interlude |
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Does the Moon really exist? |
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91 | (5) |
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In which Einstein is caught in a self-contradiction |
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100 | (3) |
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Whose reality is the real reality? |
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In which Niels Bohr is obscure, even by his own standards |
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And how many universes did you say you'd be needing? |
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Indeterminacy as illusion |
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111 | (4) |
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In which seeming virtues are displayed as faults |
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115 | (5) |
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What does determinism mean anyway? |
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You can push it around, but you can't get rid of it |
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121 | (8) |
Act II: Putting Reality to the Test |
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129 | (4) |
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133 | (6) |
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139 | (2) |
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In which reality, once changed, can never be changed back |
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The possibility of simultaneity |
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Not at all what Einstein wanted |
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150 | (7) |
Act III: Making Measurements |
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An engineer, a physicist, and a philosopher... |
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157 | (6) |
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163 | (5) |
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168 | (4) |
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Can a quantum superposition be seen? |
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172 | (5) |
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177 | (4) |
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More than you really wanted to know about dried peas |
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181 | (6) |
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A brief digression about time |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (3) |
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193 | (6) |
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The ghost of Schrodinger's cat |
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199 | (5) |
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In which Einstein's Moon is restored |
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204 | (4) |
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208 | (5) |
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213 | (3) |
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The last (or first) mystery |
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216 | (6) |
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Will we ever understand quantum mechanics? |
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222 | (5) |
Bibliography and notes |
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Index |
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