The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty by Crease, Robert P, Goldhaber, Alfred S instant download

The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty by Crease, Robert P, Goldhaber, Alfred S instant download

viii, 332 pages : 25 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index, 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 Schrèodinger'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 -- Schrèodinger's cat -- Interlude : the border war -- Rabbit hole : the thirst for parallel worlds -- Interlude : multiverses -- Saving physics -- The now moment