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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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Newtonian moment
- Interlude : The Grand Design
- A pixelated world
- Interlude : Max Planck introduces the quantum
- Quantum leaps
- Interlude : Niels Bohr uses quantum leaps to make atoms go
- Randomness
- Interlude : Albert Einstein shows how God plays dice
- The matter of identity : a quantum shoe that hasn't dropped
- Interlude : Wolfgang Pauli and the Exclusion Principle, Satyendra Bose, and bosons
- Sharks and tigers : schizophrenia
- Interlude : Erwin Schrödinger's map, Werner Heisenberg's map
- Uncertainty
- Interlude : The Uncertainty Principle
- Reality manufactured : cubism and complementarity
- Interlude : Complementarity, objectivity, and the double-slit experiment
- No dice!
- Interlude : John Bell and his theorem
- Schrödinger's cat
- Interlude : the border war
- Rabbit hole : the thirst for parallel worlds
- Interlude : multiverses
- Saving physics
- The now moment.