Paradox Lost

1. Introduction. - 2. Beyond the Ether. - 3. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. - 4. Analysis of the Photoelectric Effect. - 5. De Broglie and Electron Waves. - 5. 1. Amplitude Phase and Interference. - 6. The Wave Function and Feynman's Two-Slit Experiment. - 7. The Pauli Exclusion Principle: the Identity of Particles. - 8. The Schrodinger Wave Equation and the Hydrogen Atom. - 9. Critique of the Pointlike Electron. - 10. Complementary Attributes and the Uncertainty Principle. - 11. An Illustration: Polarized Light. - 12. Heisenberg and Measurement. - 13. More on Measurement. - 14. Further Reflections on the Bohr-Peierls Interpretation. - 15. Toward the Dirac Viewpoint. - 15. 1. The Dirac Version. - 16. Feynman's Path Integral Method. - 17. Are Fields All?. - 18. A Visit with Photons: Identity and Flexibility. - 19. Can Wave Packets Be Particles?. - 20. The Quantum Stellar Interferometer of Hanbury Brown. - 21. About the Delayed-Choice Experiment. - 22. The Illusion of Superluminal Signaling. - 22. 1. Davies' Split Box and Wave Function Collapse. - 22. 2. The Modified EPR Experiment with Photons. - 23. The Meaning of Bell's Theorem. - 24. Symmetry and Point Particles. - 25. The Quantum Mechanics of Multiparticle Systems. - 26. Atoms Molecules and the Periodic Table. - 27. Chemists Pictures and Molecular Architecture. - 28. Carbon and the Structure of Organic Molecules. - 29. Quantum Behavior in Macroscopic Systems: Beyond Wave Functions. - 29. 1. Elementary Excitations as Quanta. - 30. More on Phases: The Effect of Magnetic Fields. - 31. Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena. - 31. 1. Laser Light. - 31. 2. Superconductors. - 31. 3. Superfluid Liquid Helium. - 32. Collective Oscillations in Solids. - 33. Beyond the Frontier: Nonclassical Properties. - 34. Some Reflections on Reality. - 35. Reality andOther Sciences. - 36. A Final Perspective. Language: English