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Since the earliest days of quantum mechanics, its founders have insisted that what goes on inside an atom is impossible to rationally describe. "When it comes to atoms," Niels Bohr once wrote, "language can only be used as in poetry." Adam Kay disagrees. Escape from Shadow Physics is his fiery rebuke to Bohr''s mentality and his theory, arguing that quantum physics is as logical, reasonable, and intuitive as any other scientific theory - or at least it will be, if scientists let it. Thanks to Kay''s cutting-edge work at MIT, a genuine understanding of quantum mechanics may be just around the corner. Through bouncing droplets of oil, his team has observed quantum mechanical behaviour emerging on a macroscopic scale - a stunning breakthrough indicating that quantum and classical physics are not as irreconcilable as we have been led to think. Engaging and razor-sharp, Escape from Shadow Physics energetically attacks the orthodoxy of modern physics to put forward a bold new idea about the structure of reality. Even better, it may herald the type of true scientific revolution that comes along just once - or less - a century.
About the author
Adam Forrest Kay studied Classics and physics at the University of Colorado, and did his graduate work in England and France. He is the recipient of many scholarships and academic distinctions. He has two PhDs, one in literature from the University of Cambridge and the other in mathematics from the University of Oxford. His maths dissertation discussed the possibility of three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogues, and in the fall of 2020 Adam took up a research position at MIT to work with John Bush, the leading scholar in the field of HQA. Adam's current research interests centre around realist models of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and partial differential equations, particularly variable coefficient wave equations.
