The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty /
The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the pr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393067927 (hardcover) : 0393067920 (hardcover) |