W. M. Stuckey earned a Ph.D. in physics with a thesis in general relativistic cosmology under Louis Witten at the University of Cincinnati in 1987 and is now a Professor of Physics at Elizabethtown College. In his 36 years there he has taught numerous courses in physics to include quantum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, and foundations of modern physics. In addition to his work in foundations of quantum mechanics, he has published journal articles on cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, and general relativity.

Michael Silberstein is Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, and a Core Neuroscience Faculty member. His primary research interests are foundations of physics, foundations of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness. He is also interested in how these branches of philosophy and science bear on more general questions of reduction, emergence, and explanation. His two most recent book with OUP are Beyond the Dynamical Universe (2018) and, Emergence in Context (2022), with Robert Bishop and Mark Pexton.

Timothy J. McDevitt earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1996 studying the deformations of elastic shells. He has worked in academia for 24 years, but he also spent time in the employment of the US government, and he was a Congressional Fellow in 2021-2022 for the American Association for the Advancement of Science representing the American Statistical Association. Tim especially enjoys interdisciplinary research and he has published articles in cryptology, engineering, math, medicine, philosophy, and physics.

• Preface


• 0: Albert's Mysterious Quantum Gloves Experiment


• 1: Introduction: Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics


• 2: The Mystery: Mermin's Device


• 3: Constructive Responses to Bell's Theorem


• 4: A Precedent: Special Relativity


• 5: Einstein's Principle or Reichenbach's?


• 6: A Principle Response from Quantum Information Theorists


• 7: Mystery Solved: Oh, the Irony


• 8: Superquantum Probabilities: Why No PR-Box?


• 9: 9 What's Really Going On?


• 9A: Interpreting Quantum Mechanics in a Realist Fashion


• 9B: Gravity Matters


• 9C: The Delayed Choice Experiment


• 9D: Schrodinger's Cat and Wigner's Friend