Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - Softcover

Kumar, Manjit

 
9781848310353: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

Synopsis

Gives a dramatic history of quantum theory, a fundamental scientific revolution and the divisive debate at its core. This book shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century. It focuses on the conflict between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science.

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About the Author

Manjit Kumar is the editor of Prometheus, a journal that covers the arts, sciences and humanities and has written for the Guardian, the TES and the Irish Times. He is the co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason, an adapted chapter of which Michael Frayn described as 'the clearest account I've read yet of the development of quantum mechanics.'

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