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Los fisicos Rosenblum y Kuttner exponen con claridad y sin tecnicismos el desarrollo historico de esta teoria, relatan fascinantes historias y anecdotas sobre los cientificos involucrados en ella y exploran la paradojica idea de que la conciencia afecta a los fenomenos fisicos. El enigma cuantico, en definitiva, ofrece una amena aproximacion a un misterio que obsesiona a los fisicos desde hace ocho decadas. Nacida en los anos veinte del siglo pasado para explicar el mecanismo que rige el comportamiento de los atomos, la teoria cuantica ha sido sorprendentemente exitosa: ninguna de sus predicciones ha resultado falsa y ningun cientifico la pone en cuestion. / In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the foremost objectors to it. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all of this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and anecdotes about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, with an emphasis on what is and what is not speculation. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what it all means, however, is controversial. Every interpretation of quantum physics encounters consciousness. Rosenblum and Kuttner therefore turn to exploring consciousness itself--and encounter quantum physics. Free will and anthropic principles become crucial issues, and the connection of consciousness with the cosmos suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. Readers are brought to a boundary where the particular expertise of physicists is no longer a sure guide. They will find, instead, the facts and hints provided by quantum mechanics and the ability to speculate for themselves.
