TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaiser,David
TI  - Quantum legacies: dispatches from an uncertain world 
SN  - 9780226698052 (hbk.) :
AV  - QC173.98 .K358 2020
U1  - 530.12 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Quantum theory
KW  - Physics
KW  - History
KW  - Science
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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