Quantum legacies : dispatches from an uncertain world / David Kaiser ; foreword by Alan Lightman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.Description: 360 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780226698052 (hbk.) :
- 530.12 23
- QC173.98 .K358 2020
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Main | 530.12 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 11/04/2024 | R16949W0499 |
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.
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