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Description: This book describes how physics leads inexorably to the conclusion that its own objects of study - light, particles, planets, stars, galaxies, the Universe and you and me - do not actually exist. How can that be? What explains the world we think we see, and how is it that we all (more or less) see the same one? You will have to read this book to find out! Other popular books, especially those on quantum mechanics, cover some of the same ground but shrink from this conclusion; they leave the reader with the impression that there are many competing "interpretations" available, including contenting ourselves with experiments and asking no questions about what they mean. By contrast, this book is unsparing in its rigor: the experimental facts must be faced squarely along with their implications. Those facts are laid out in the form of 56 short "chapters" of a few pages each with titles such as "Is this a new discovery?" "Why didn't I know this already?" "Quantum mechanics explained," "Sensing the dimensionality of space," "Back to the future," "The future of the human race" and "What should you do next?" They are based on the author's articles in respected journals including Nature and the American Journal of Physics. But the author is an astronomer, not a physicist, and he has written this book primarily for people who are highly intelligent but have little or no formal education in physics. Popular books on physics often tend to be long on gee-whiz, and short on real explanation. This one goes the opposite way. Readers who wish additional mathematical details can find them on the author's website, https://henry.pha.jhu.edu/rch.html.
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