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The quantum moment

how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

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An edition of The quantum moment (2014)

The quantum moment

how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

First edition.
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The 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.

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Cover of: Quantum Moment
Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
2015, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W.W. Norton and Company
in English
Cover of: The quantum moment
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty
2014, W.W. Norton & Company
in English - First edition.
Cover of: Quantum Moment
Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English

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Table of Contents

The 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.

Other Titles
How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530.12
Library of Congress
QC174.123 .C74 2014, QC174.123.C74 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 332 pages
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27166496M
Internet Archive
quantummomenthow0000crea
ISBN 10
0393067920
ISBN 13
9780393067927
LCCN
2014011427
OCLC/WorldCat
879329423, 2014011427

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