The quantum challenge

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1. lisperSep 2021
   The best of what's available at the moment is (IMHO):

   David Z. Albert, "Quantum Mechanics and Experience"

   Tim Maudlin, "Philosophy of Science: Quantum Mechanics" (Space and Time is also a good read.)

   But I'm actually contemplating writing a book of my own because I think there's still a pretty significant gap insofar as none of these books get into quantum information theory at all, which I think is crucial to having a really solid understanding.

   Another really good book is this one:

   https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Challenge-Foundations-Mechani...

   though it's a tad pricey, but it's actually a really good mix of technical and historical content because it describes the experiments that were done to show that the many unintuitive predictions of QM are actually true.

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2. madhadronFeb 2019
   You might like Greenstein and Zajonc's book 'The Quantum Challenge' is talks about a lot of the research in the foundations of quantum mechanics, which is a thriving field in its own right. It's also incredibly subtle and basically impossible to sell popular books with. The book I mentioned is most emphatically not a popular science book.
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