Wenn ich ein neues Buch zur Hand nehme, lese ich immer zuerst den Schluss, denn ich habe herausgefunden, dass auch in schwierigen Buchern gewohnlich Schlussfolgerungen gezogen werden, die leicht zu lesen sind, und das gibt mir eine erste Vorstellung vom Inhalt. So erwarte ich naturlich auch von meinen Lesern, dass sie es so halten Das vorliegende Buch bietet sogar eine Gelegenheit, die Methode zu verallgemei nern. Nachdem der Leser Kapitel14 uberflogen hat, sollte er vorzugsweise die Kapitel 5, 2, 13 und 10 oder wenigstens einige davon (in dieser oder einer an deren Reihenfolge) lesen, bevor...

When I take up a new book I always read its conclusions first. For I have discovered that even difficult books have conclusions that are easy to read and that give a first idea of their content. Of course, I expect my readers to do this also Indeed, the present book offers them an opportunity for generalizing the method. After having gone over chapter 14 they should preferably look through chapters 5, 2, 13 and 10, or at least some of these (in this or in other orders), before engaging into any thorough reading. The point is that-at appropriate places in other chapters-the reader will find...

Schommers introduces the foundations, mostly from a histori- cal point of view. Eberhard gives an introductory account of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Bell's celebrated inequalities. D'Espagnat discusses realism andseparability and concludes that contemporary physics does not lead to a definite conception of the world. Eberhard shows how a model consistent with Bell's theorem can be constructed by ad- mitting faster-than-light action at a distance. Schommers discusses the structure ofspace-time and argues that physi- cally real processes do not take place in but are projected on...