Bibliograph

The quantum moment, how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty, Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

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The quantum moment, how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty, Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The quantum moment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

879329423

Responsibility statement

Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

Sub title

how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

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

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

Target audience

adult

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How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

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