Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-222) and indexes
How quantum theory was discovered: -- An act of desperation -- Gathering the evidence -- Wave-particle duality -- Wave mechanics -- Matrix mechanics and the uncertainty principle -- Relativity and spin -- Putting it into practice: -- Operators in quantum mechanics -- The postulates of quantum mechanics -- State vectors in Hilbert principle -- The polarization properties of photons -- Quantum measurement -- What does it mean?: -- Positivism -- The Copenhagen interpretation -- The Bohr-Einstein debate -- Is quantum mechanics complete? -- Hidden variables -- Putting it to the test: -- Bohm's version of the EPR experiment -- Quantum theory and local reality -- Bell's theorem -- The Aspect experiments -- Delayed-choice experiments -- Retrospective -- What are the alternatives?: -- Pilo waves, potentials and propensities -- An irreversible act -- The conscious act -- The 'many-world' interpretation -- The hand of God?