{"product_id":"books-einsteins-unfinished-revolution-by-lee-smolin","title":"Einsteins Unfinished Revolution","description":"Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the  boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of  the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in  quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of  everything from elementary particles to the behaviour of materials.  While  quantum mechanics is currently our best theory of nature at an atomic  scale, it has many puzzling qualities - qualities that preclude realism  and therefore give an incomplete description of nature. Rather than  question this version of quantum mechanics, however, whole groups of  physicists have embraced it as correct and rejected realism. Subscribing  to a kind of magical thinking, they believe that what is real is far  beyond the world we perceive: indeed, that the 'true' world is hidden  from our perception.  Back in the 1920s Einstein, both a realist  and a physicist, believed that it was necessary to go beyond quantum  mechanics to discover what was missing from a true theory of the atoms.  This was Einstein's unfinished mission, and it is Lee Smolin's too.  Not  only will this new model of quantum physics form the basis of solutions  to many of the outstanding problems of physics, but, crucially, it is a  theory that is realist in nature. At a time when science is under  attack, and with it the belief in a real world in which facts are either  true or false, never has the importance of building science on the  correct foundations been more urgent.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673579675921,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780241004487.jpg?v=1781526878","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-einsteins-unfinished-revolution-by-lee-smolin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}