from UofM in Computational Cosmology in 2012. from Cornell in Physics and in Philosophy in 2006, got a masters a year later from the University of Michigan in Physics, and then got a Ph.D. “What is Real?” came out in 2018, when Becker was 34, and was written as a result of him getting a Sloan Foundation grant a couple of years earlier to “research and write a book on the history of the foundations of quantum physics, with a particular emphasis on the continued dominance of the troubled ‘Copenhagen Interpretation’.” The fact that grant summary calls it the “troubled” Copenhagen Interpretation provides a pretty clear hint at the direction which Becker is coming from, something I wasn’t aware of when I was reading the book, but which became clear pretty quickly.īecker has an interesting academic background - he got his B.A. But I have a tendency to want to write about things I’ve been thinking about a lot, and I have this here blog, and there’s not much baseball going on, so. It deals with quantum physics and the nature of reality, a topic I’m fascinated with, but which I realize many people don’t find interesting, so I get it if you close the browser or otherwise move on to something else after reading this sentence. I recently finished “What is Real?” by Adam Becker, and it is a book that I’ve not stopped thinking about after reading it.
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