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Do we live in one of many parallel worlds, with near-identical versions of ourselves spread across the multiverse? Is a quantum leap unthinkably massive or subatomically small? The language and the imagery of quantum mechanics are ubiquitous, yet the science and its journey into everyday language still confounds us. In The Quantum Moment, Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber tell how a controversial idea from an obscure branch of optics grew in complexity and authority, eventually dominating the scientific community and commanding the attention of the culture at large. Recounting fiery disputes between figures including Einstein, Schrodinger, and Pauli, the authors trace popular images time travel, parallel worlds, random behavior back to their scientific roots and uncover modern manifestations in everything from architecture and sculpture to the prose of John Updike. The Quantum Moment combines an exhilarating history of the quantum with shrewd insight into our experience of the everyday."
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Title: The Quantum Moment( How Planck Bohr Einstein and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: RobertP.Crease <>Publisher: W.W.Norton&Company
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A fascinating tour of the lives and afterlives of some of the most captivating concepts of quantum theory.--David Kaiser, author of How the Hippies Saved Physics
An entertaining read.--Jim Baggott
This is an amazing book for scientists and humanists alike! Every page yields surprises--not only about the complex history of quantum physics but about how it impacts our understanding of ourselves in daily life. Required reading for anyone concerned with casting the fate of humankind in a radically new light.--Edward S. Casey, author of The World at a Glance
Fascinating... Crease and Goldhaber have written an accessible and entertaining history that embraces both the science and the silliness of quantum mechanics.
Approachable... the authors are at their most entertaining when they expose the hollow understanding of physics that many who use its terms possess.--Max Ross
A delight! A tour de force that is both illuminating and extraordinarily readable.--Gino Segrč, author of Ordinary Geniuses: How Two Mavericks Shaped Modern Science
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0393067920
- ISBN 13 9780393067927
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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