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020			_a9780226698052 (hbk.) : _c£21.00
020			_z9780226698199 (ePub ebook) : _c£21.00
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050		0	_aQC173.98 _b.K358 2020
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082	0	4	_a530.12 _223
100	1		_aKaiser, David, _eauthor. _919405
245	1	0	_aQuantum legacies : _bdispatches from an uncertain world / _cDavid Kaiser ; foreword by Alan Lightman.
260			_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2020.
263			_a202004
300			_a360 pages ; _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	8		_aThe 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.
650		0	_aQuantum theory. _99305
650		0	_aPhysics _xHistory. _919406
650		7	_aScience. _2ukslc _9213
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