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    The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty / Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber.

    By: Crease, Robert PContributor(s): Goldhaber, Alfred SMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393067927; 0393067920; 9780393351927; 0393351920Other title: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertaintySubject(s): Quantum theory -- Popular works | Physics -- Popular works | Physics | Quantum theory | Quantentheorie | Unschärferelation | KvantteoriGenre/Form: Popular works.DDC classification: 530.12 LOC classification: QC174.123 | .C74 2014Other classification: 33.23 | 30.01 | A | SCI057000
    Contents:
    The Newtonian moment -- The Grand Design -- A pixelated world -- Max Planck introduces the quantum -- Quantum leaps -- Niels Bohr uses quantum leaps to make atoms go -- Randomness -- Albert Einstein shows how God plays dice -- The matter of identity : a quantum shoe that hasn't dropped -- Wolfgang Pauli and the Exclusion Principle, Satyendra Bose, and bosons -- Sharks and tigers : schizophrenia -- Erwin Schrödinger's map, Werner Heisenberg's map -- Uncertainty -- The Uncertainty Principle -- Reality fractured : cubism and complementarity -- Complementarity, objectivity, and the double-slit experiment -- No dice! -- John Bell and his theorem -- Schrödinger's cat -- The border war -- Rabbit hole : the thirst for parallel worlds -- multiverses -- Saving physics -- The now moment.
    Summary: 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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    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 Schrödinger's map, Werner Heisenberg's map -- Uncertainty -- Interlude : The Uncertainty Principle -- Reality fractured : 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.

    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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