Quantum legacies :
Kaiser, David,
Quantum legacies : dispatches from an uncertain world / David Kaiser ; foreword by Alan Lightman. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020. - 360 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds around them, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars, and a new nuclear age. In 'Quantum Legacies', David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental.
9780226698052 (hbk.) : £21.00 £21.00
Quantum theory.
Physics--History.
Science.
QC173.98 / .K358 2020
530.12
Quantum legacies : dispatches from an uncertain world / David Kaiser ; foreword by Alan Lightman. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020. - 360 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds around them, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars, and a new nuclear age. In 'Quantum Legacies', David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental.
9780226698052 (hbk.) : £21.00 £21.00
Quantum theory.
Physics--History.
Science.
QC173.98 / .K358 2020
530.12