Download or read book Veiled Reality written by Bernard D'Espagnat and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While quantum mechanics appears as being the most basic element of contemporary physics, its meaning remains mysterious to the very physicists who make use of it, and is acknowledged as such by all those among them who care about such questions. The final message of the bookstemming from a careful, comprehensive analysisis that this apparent obscurity is there to stay, in the sense that what quantum mechanics (and therefore the whole of physics) describes in detail is not what could be consistently referred to as man-independent reality . It is essentially what philosophers call empirical reality, that is, reality as seen through the colored glasses or our sensorial equipment and our possibilities of action. Of mind-independent reality we perceive, at best, some distorted general structures. It is veiled."