Quantum Legacies : Dispatches from an Uncertain World /

The 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, phy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaiser, David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lightman, Alan (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Physics > History.
Quantum theory.
SCIENCE / General.
quantum theory, probability, particles, schrodinger, physics, uncertainty, space, time, matter, albert einstein, stephen hawking, nature, natural world, universe, cold war, scientists, science, history, heisenberg, cosmology, soviet, spy, double agent, exile, politics, nonfiction, technology, rivalry, competition, discovery, innovation, astronomy, astrophysics, biography, profile.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • Introduction
  • QUANTA
  • 1. All Quantum, No Solace
  • 2. Life-and- Death
  • 3. Operation: Neutrino
  • 4. Quantum Theory by Starlight
  • CALCULATING
  • 5. From Blackboards to Bombs
  • 6. Boiling Electrons
  • 7. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
  • 8. Training Quantum Mechanics
  • 9. Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing
  • MATTER
  • 10. Pipe Dreams
  • 11. Something for Nothing
  • 12. Higgs Hunting
  • 13. When Fields Collide
  • COSMOS
  • 14. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • 15. Gaga for Gravitation
  • 16. The Other Evolution Wars
  • 17. No More Lonely Hearts
  • 18. Learning from Gravitational Waves
  • 19. A Farewell to Stephen Hawking
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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