Philosophy for Science IV: Where Classical Physics Ends and Quantum Mechanics Begins Course October 9, 2012

Science is a methodology: a particular way of observing and explaining the world, of answering the one big question: What must the world be like, that it produce the phenomena we observe? The final part of this four part series explores why, around the turn of the twentieth century, classical Newtonian mechanics gave way to a completely new paradigm: Quantum Mechanics (QM). In this course, we review some of the experimental phenomena that Classical Mechanics simply cannot explain; we define QM and elaborate its various (mis)interpretations; dismantle much of the nonsense that is attributed to it in the popular literature; and explore why even QM struggles to describe what the world is really like. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/phs4 for more information or to register.

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