{"id":76966,"date":"2018-03-16T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T03:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/what-is-real-review-quarks-and-quandaries"},"modified":"2018-03-16T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T03:23:33","slug":"what-is-real-review-quarks-and-quandaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/what-is-real-review-quarks-and-quandaries","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Is Real?\u2019 Review: Quarks and Quandaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-real-review-quarks-and-quandaries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many physicists sidestep the philosophical puzzles altogether, preferring to \u201cshut up and calculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If quantum mechanics can be said to have a capital city it is surely Copenhagen, birthplace of the physicist Niels Bohr (1885\u22121962) and of the formalism he and others developed to make sense of the subatomic realm. Their approach, the \u201cCopenhagen Interpretation,\u201d is expounded in every textbook. Yet it has been questioned many times, and in \u201cWhat Is Real?\u201d Adam Becker tells a fascinating if complex story of quantum dissidents. Two of the most important not only displeased Bohr, they also attracted the attention of the FBI.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-is-real-review-quarks-and-quandaries-1521234605\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-is-real-review-quarks-and-...1521234605<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many physicists sidestep the philosophical puzzles altogether, preferring to \u201cshut up and calculate.\u201d If quantum mechanics can be said to have a capital city it is surely Copenhagen, birthplace of the physicist Niels Bohr (1885\u22121962) and of the formalism he and others developed to make sense of the subatomic realm. Their approach, the \u201cCopenhagen Interpretation,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}