ABSTRACT

Quantum mechanics has given scientists valuable lessons in how science works. Unfortunately, it has also been misinterpreted and misrepresented by pseudoscientists and portrayed as an antipode of classical physics. As a result, the majority of the educated public is confused about both the quantum theory and classical Newtonian physics and the relation between the two. We postpone the examination of the misrepresentation of the quantum theory in pseudoscience until Chapter 35. This chapter concentrates, in part, on the characteristics of the theory and how it is similar to (and different from) the classical theory.