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The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Momentsby Jim Baggott
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To take us from the story's beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes his story around forty turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably bound up with the characters involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitement as they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through the mix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of theory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more. brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing at its best. A compelling look at the one-hundred-year history of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster ever since.
About the AuthorJim Baggott is the author of Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949, A Beginner's Guide to Reality, and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, among other books.
Table of ContentsPart I: Quantum in Action
1. An Act of Desperation: Berlin 1900 2. Independent Energy Quanta: Bern 1905 3. Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps: Manchester 1913 4. Wave-particle Duality: Paris 1923 5. Strangely Beautiful Interior: Helgoland 1925 6. A Late Erotic Outburst: Swiss Alps 1925 7. The Self-rotating Electron: Leiden 1925 Part II: Quantum Probability and Quantum Uncertainty 8. Quantum Probability: Gottingen 1926 9. The Whole Idea of Quantum Jumps Necessarily Leads to Nonsense: Copenhagen 1926 10. Uncertainty Principle: Copenhagen 1927 11. The Copenhagen Interpretation: Copenhagen 1927 12. Complementarity: Lake Como 1927 Part III: Quantum Interpretation 13. Gedankenexperiment: Brussels 1927 14. An Absolute Wonder: Cambridge 1927 15. A Certain Unreasonableness: Brussels 1930 16. A Bolt from the Blue: Copenhagen 1935 17. The Paradox of Schrodinger's Cat: Oxford 1935 Part IV: Quantum Fields 18. Crisis: Shelter Island 1947 19. Quantum Electrodynamics: Oldstone 1949 20. Gauge Symmetry and Gauge Theories: Princeton 1954 21. Three Quarks for Muster Mark: Pasadena 1963 22. The Higgs Mechanism: Edinburgh 1965 Part V: Quantum Particles 23. Electro-weak Unification: Harvard 1967 24. Deep Inelastic Scattering: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1967 25. Asymptotic Freedom and Quantum Chromodynamics: Harvard 1973 26. The November Revolution: Brookhaven and SLAC 1974 27. The W and Z Bosons: CERN 1983 28. Completing the Picture: Fermilab 1994 Part VI: Quantum Reality 29. Hidden Variables: Princeton 1951 30. Bell's Theorem: Geneva 1964 31. The Aspect Experiments: Paris 1982 32. Beating the Uncertainty Principle: Albuquerque 1991 33. Three-photon GHZ States: Vienna 2000 34. Reality, Whether Local or Not: Vienna 2007 Part VII: Quantum Gravity 35. That Damned Equation: Princeton 1967 36. The First Superstring Revolution: Aspen 1984 37. The Quantum Structure of Space: Santa Barbara 1986 38. No Consistency Without Contingency: Durham 1995 39. The Second Superstring Revolution: Los Angeles 1995 40. Resolving the Impasse: CERN 2008 Epilogue Quantum Timeline Name Index Subject Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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