Quantum legacies dispatches from an uncertain world
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, phy...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press
2020
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- Introduction
- QUANTA
- 1. All Quantum, No Solace
- 2. Life-and- Death
- 3. Operation: Neutrino
- 4. Quantum Theory by Starlight
- CALCULATING
- 5. From Blackboards to Bombs
- 6. Boiling Electrons
- 7. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
- 8. Training Quantum Mechanics
- 9. Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing
- MATTER
- 10. Pipe Dreams
- 11. Something for Nothing
- 12. Higgs Hunting
- 13. When Fields Collide
- COSMOS
- 14. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- 15. Gaga for Gravitation
- 16. The Other Evolution Wars
- 17. No More Lonely Hearts
- 18. Learning from Gravitational Waves
- 19. A Farewell to Stephen Hawking
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- INDEX