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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaiser, David
Other Authors: Lightman, Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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