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Paul J. van Leeuwen. Quantum Physics is not Weird. On the Contrary.
Table of Contents
Preface
Reading guide
Introduction
1: Paradoxes - 'I know how it is'
2: The discovery of the solar system
The heliocentric model of Copernicus, Galilei and Kepler
Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)
Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 BC) and his paradoxes
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
Light as little hard balls or as waves
What we learned in this chapter:
3: The clockwork universe and the ether
Light as a wave phenomenon, interference, superposition
Fields, electromagnetic waves
A Nobel prize for a failed experiment
The classical view of the universe at the end of the 19th century
The electromagnetic spectrum
The UV catastrophe and Planck's quantum
A desperate act
What we learned in this chapter:
4: The collapse of classical physics
Waves
Einstein's photons
Ernest Rutherford's model of the atom
The solar system model of the atom is impossible
Energy = Mass according to Einstein
Spectral lines. Niels Bohr quantizes the atom
Harmonic electron waves
Diffraction grids, a whole series of parallel slits
Serendipity with electrons
The birth of the electron microscope
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5: Uncertainty, the quantum collapse
Double-slit with single electrons or photons
The quantum mechanics - Heisenberg and Schrödinger
Subjective and objective probabilities
Einstein's recoiling slit 'Gedanken' experiment
Einstein's recoiling slit experiment performed at the molecular level
The molecular double-slit results
It's about information
The Copenhagen interpretation
Wonderful Copenhagen
Schrödinger's cat and the measurement problem
Snapshots of state waves
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6: An obscuring forest of hypotheses
Hidden variables and known variables
Local and non-local
The projection postulate by John von Neumann
Einstein's last serious attack - the EPR paradox
Entanglement
Non-locality
Bell's theorem
Bell test, test, test, .. and success, success, success, .
Eight most popular quantum hypotheses
1: Hidden variables
2:Multiverse hypothesis
3: Spontaneous collapse
4: Super selection
5: Decoherence
6: The Matrix
7: No collapse
8: Projection postulate
Seven critical experiments
1: Fullerene interference
2: Pk-experiments
3: The quantum Zeno effect
4: The Davisson Germer experiment:
5: Pk-experiment by Dean Radin
6:Mind-matter collapse experiment
7: Photosynthesis efficiency
Summarized result of 8 experiments
Bohr's complementarity
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7: The delayed choice experiments
John Wheeler's thought experiments
The Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Wave reflections and phase shifts
ClosedMach-Zehnder explained with light waves
Closed Mach-Zehnder explained with photons
Closed Mach-Zehnder explained with state wave
Open Mach-Zehnder configuration
Delayed choice experiments with cold helium atoms
Wheeler's Mach-Zehnder experiment with cold atoms
The blocked Mach-Zehnder
The quantum eraser experiments
Delayed choice quantum eraser - 2007 version
Delayed choice quantum eraser results discussion
Does a single measurement collapse the entangled state wave completely?
Is consciousness at stake here?
Final conclusions of the delayed choice experiments
Starlight
The quantum picture of a light wave
A Chinese quantum radar
What we learned in this chapter:
8: Information, Communication, Entropy
Communication between Bob and Alice
Entropy, order, chaos and information
Time, space and entropy
An information eraser
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9: The dubious existence of the photon
Do photons actually exist?
Energy conservation and photons
Reification of the abstract photon
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10: Retrocausality in physical reality
Sensing the future
Experiments about premonitions
The quantum wave and the time
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11: Quantum biology
Quantum tunneling
Quantum biology has become respectable science
Breath in, breath out
A chlorophyll quantum computer
Coherence and decoherence
Quantum tunneling in living systems. Enzymes
The robin's magnetoreception
Other quantum biological phenomena
Lamarck revisioned?
Casey Blood: The quantum brain
Information, entropy, life and consciousness
Life and the multiverse
Quantum coherence
What we learned in this chapter:
12: A possible model. Descartes and the illusion of the world
The Cartesian Duality
The Cartesian theater
You're not in there, not even now
The rubber hand illusion
Body swap illusion
The quantum as phantom
The measurement problem
Entanglement
Non-locality
Models of consciousness and reality
Awareness as an emergent phenomenon
The Cartesian body-consciousness duality
Monistic consciousness
Cosmic consciousness
The Omkar
All quantum paradoxes disappear
The illusion of time and distance
In good company
The 7 Principles of Biocentrism
What we learned in this chapter:
13: Falsifiability of the consciousness hypothesis
The quantum Zeno-effect
Adapted quantum eraser
Synchrotron-Soleil experiment
Demonstrating awareness in animals and plants
Quantum computers and consciousness
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14 Consilience
Near-Death Experiences
After death communications
Children with memories of past lives
Verified communications with deceased persons
Psychokinesis: consciousness influencing the physical
The astounding effectiveness of mathematics
15: The trodden path
Epilogue
Appendices. A: Observers in physics
B: Faster than light communication with the quantum eraser?
C: Waves, phases and frequency
D: Locality and fields
E: A short introduction to complex numbers
F: Multiversa, what it means in numbers
G: The cat who told me she was all right
H: Bibliography
I: How this book came about
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