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Quantum drama : from the Bohr-Einstein debate to the riddle of entanglement /

It was not a question of whether light should be pictured as waves or particles, or atoms as solar systems, but of whether the microworld could be pictured at all. The famous debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr reached beyond quantum physics to the deepest foundations of science. Faced wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baggott, J. E. (Author), Heilbron, J. L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Quantum theory > History.
Physics.
Théorie quantique > Histoire.
Physique.
physics.
Science.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Prologue
  • ACT I. CORRESPONDENCE TO COMPLEMENTARITY
  • Mutual Admiration
  • An Honourable Funeral
  • New Ways to Calculate
  • New Ways to Think
  • ACT II. UNCERTAINTY TO ORTHODOXY
  • Incompatible Conceptions
  • Measurement and Impossibility
  • EPR, Faust, and the Cat
  • Missionaries of the Copenhagen Spirit
  • ACT III. ORTHODOXY TO UNCERTAINTY
  • Postwar Hostilities
  • Skirmishes in Princeton
  • Juvenile Deviationism
  • Passing the Torch
  • ACT IV. PRODUCTIVE INEQUALITIES
  • The Theorem of John S. Bell
  • Bell Tests and Protests
  • While the Photons Are Dancing
  • Adventures in Quantum Information
  • Where to Cut? Which Way to Go?
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figure and Photo Credits
  • Endnotes
  • Sources
  • Index