Ferry D. The Copenhagen Conspiracy

Pan Stanford Publishing, 2019. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-1-351-20723-2.At the close of the nineteenth century, we stood on the threshold of one of the greatest periods of science, in which the entire world and understanding of science would be shaken to the core and greatly modified. This explosion of knowledge led ultimately to that same information revolution that we live in today. Planck and Einstein showed that light was not continuous but made of small corpuscles that today we call photons.
Einstein changed the understanding of mechanics with his theory of relativity: airplanes became conceivable; radio and television blossomed; and the microelectronics industry, which drives most of modern technology, came into being. New areas of science were greatly expanded and developed, and one of these was quantum mechanics, which is the story to be told here. Yet, the development of quantum mechanics and the leadership of Niels Bohr have distorted the understanding of quantum mechanics in a strange way.
There are some who would say that Bohr set back the real understanding of quantum mechanics by half a century. I believe they underestimate his role, and it may be something more like a full century. Whether we call it the Copenhagen interpretation, or the Copenhagen orthodoxy, it is the how for the continuing mysticism provided by Mach that is still remaining in quantum mechanics. It is not the why. Why it perseveres and why it was forced on the field in the first place is an important perception to be studied. In this book, I want to trace the development of quantum mechanics and try to uncover the why.In the Beginning
Black-Body Radiation
The Photoelectric Effec
Further Confirmation
The Conundrum
The Rise of Positivism
The Peace Maker
Modern InvestigationsThe Arrival of Bohr's Atomic Theory
Absorption and Emission
Niels Bohr
Bohr's Atom
Slowing for the Great War
A Step Too Far
The Rise of Duality
The New BreedArrival of the New Quantum Theory
Preliminaries
Heisenberg's Kinematics
Born and Jordan
The English Student
The Drei-Männer Paper
The Peacemaker
The Waves Come Ashore
Heisenberg's Uncertainty
ComplementaritySolvay
Solvay 1911
Solvay 1927: Setting the Stage
Solvay 1927: The Conference Itself
Solvay 1927: Einstein and Bohr
The AftermathInterregnum
Dirac Moves Forward
Advance in Understanding
Einstein-Bohr Once Again
The Acolytes' Reach
The Exodus1935
Schrödinger
Schrödinger's Cat
Entanglement
Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
Bohr's Response
Further Considerations
Schrödinger on Measurement
Bohr CapitulatesThe Rising Storm
The Positivist Revival
David Bohm
The "Usual" Understanding
The Causal Theory
The Two-Slit Experiment
EPR Again
Hidden VariablesBell’s Inequality
Bell on Hidden Variables
Problems in Paradise
George Boole
CHSH
ContradictionsMeasurement
Probability
Wave Function Collapse
Quantum Jumps
Weak Measurements
Decoherence Theory
Waves and Particles AgainWhat Does It All Mean?
Copenhagen–Göttingen
The Wave Interpretation
Contrasting Views
Disillusionment
In the End