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050 00 $aQC174.123$b.C74 2014
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100 1 $aCrease, Robert P.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe quantum moment :$bhow Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty /$cRobert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber.
246 30 $aHow Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c[2014]
300 $aviii, 332 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.
505 0 $aThe Newtonian moment -- Interlude : The Grand Design -- A pixelated world -- Interlude : Max Planck introduces the quantum -- Quantum leaps -- Interlude : Niels Bohr uses quantum leaps to make atoms go -- Randomness -- Interlude : Albert Einstein shows how God plays dice -- The matter of identity : a quantum shoe that hasn't dropped -- Interlude : Wolfgang Pauli and the Exclusion Principle, Satyendra Bose, and bosons -- Sharks and tigers : schizophrenia -- Interlude : Erwin Schrödinger's map, Werner Heisenberg's map -- Uncertainty -- Interlude : The Uncertainty Principle -- Reality manufactured : cubism and complementarity -- Interlude : Complementarity, objectivity, and the double-slit experiment -- No dice! -- Interlude : John Bell and his theorem -- Schrödinger's cat -- Interlude : the border war -- Rabbit hole : the thirst for parallel worlds -- Interlude : multiverses -- Saving physics -- The now moment.
520 $aThe authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.
650 0 $aQuantum theory$vPopular works.
650 0 $aPhysics$vPopular works.
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700 1 $aGoldhaber, Alfred S.,$eauthor.
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