Quantum Leaps - Hardcover

Bernstein, Jeremy

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ISBN 10: 0674035410 ISBN 13: 9780674035416

Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In 1953, reflecting on early ventures in quantum theory, J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke of terror and exaltation, of history happening in a realm so remote from common experience that it was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian'. Yet now, anyone can Google 'quantum theory' and find more than 34 million entries - from poets and historians, certainly, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How - and how pervasively - quantum mechanics has entered the general culture is the subject of this book, an engaging, eclectic, and thought-provoking look at the curious, boundlessly fertile intersection of scientific thought and everyday life.

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"[Bernstein's] exposition of the quantum conundrums is clear and bracing, and a stimulating challenge. Quantum Leaps is an intellectual curiosity, redolent of the strange mental landscape inhabited by the world's greatest intellects."
--The Independent, 7 January 2010

About the Author:

Jeremy Bernstein is a former staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the author of many books, including Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element and Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma.

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