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100 1 $aLederman, Leon M.
245 10 $aQuantum physics for poets /$cLeon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2011.
300 $a338 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-328) and indexes.
505 0 $aIf you're not shocked, you haven't understood. An advance peek at quantum physics ; Why is quantum theory psychologically disturbing? ; Spooky actions at a distance ; Schrödinger's tabby ; No math, but perhaps a few numbers ; Why do we care about a "theory"? ; Intuition? fire up your counterintuition -- Before the quantum. Complicating factors ; The parabola and the pendulum ; The cannon and the cosmos -- Light and its various curiosities. How fast does light travel? ; But what is light made of? particles or waves? ; Thomas Young ; Diffraction ; The ecstasy and the agony of Young's double-slit diffraction experiment ; Young's conclusion : light is a wave ; Unanswered questions ; Fingerprints of the atom ; Maxwell and Faraday : the laird and the bookbinder --
505 0 $aRebels storm the office. What is a blackbody and why should we care? ; Ich bin ein Berliner ; Catastrophe! (in ultraviolet) ; Max Planck ; Enter Einstein ; The photoelectric effect ; Arthur Compton ; The double-slit experiment returns with a vengeance ; Booby-trapping the slits ; Through a glass, brightly ; The walrus and the plum pudding ; The melancholy Dane ; The character of the atom -- Heisenberg's uncertainty. Nature is lumpy ; The Franck-Hertz experiment ; The terrible twenties ; A strange mathematics ; The inception of the uncertainty principle ; The loveliest equation ever written ; Fourier soup (or, I think we're back in Kansas) ; Waves of probability ; The triumph of uncertainty ; Born, Fourier, and Schrödinger ; The Copenhagen interpretation ; Still crazy after all these years --
505 0 $aQuantum science at work. But Isaac Newton never sent us e-mail! ; Playing cards with Dmitry Mendeleyev ; Police lineup of the elements ; How to build an atom? ; The atomic orbitals ; Enter Mr. Pauli, stage left ; Molecules ; Summing it all up ; Pauli's new force -- Controversy : Einstein vs. Bohr-- and Bell. Four shocking things ; How can it possibly be so weird? ; Geneaology [sic] of mixed states ; Hidden things ; The EPR gauntlet : entanglement ; What Bohr said to EPR ; A deeper theory? ; John Bell ; Bell's theorem unveiled ; Bell's thought experiment in English (almost) ; Nonlocality and hidden variables ; What kind of world is this, anyway? --
505 0 $aModern quantum physics. Marrying quantum physics to special relativity ; E = mc2 ; The century of the square root ; Paul Dirac ; Fishing the Dirac Sea ; The trouble with the energy of the Dirac Sea ; Supersymmetry ; Holography ; Feynman's sum over paths ; Condensed matter physics ; The conduction band ; Diodes and transistors ; Profitable applications -- Gravity and quantum theory : strings. General relativity ; Black holes ; Quantum gravity? ; String theory ; Superstring theory ; Strings today ; The landscape -- Quantum physics for Millennium III. So many worlds...so little time ; To be and not to be ; Quantum wealth ; Quantum cryptography ; Quantum computers ; Future wonder computers ; Finale -- Appendix. Spin. What is spin? ; Exchange symmetry.
520 $aQuantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable enigma. The authors of this book seek to remedy this situation by drawing on both their scientific expertise and their talent for communicating science to the general reader. Their story is partly historical, covering the many "Eureka" moments when great scientists -- Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and others -- struggled to come to grips with the many bizarre realities that quantum research revealed. Although their findings were indisputably proven in experiments, they were so strange and counterintuitive that Einstein refused to accept quantum theory, despite its great success. The authors explain the many strange and even eerie aspects of quantum reality at the subatomic level, from "particles" that can be many places simultaneously and sometimes act more like waves, to the effect that we humans can have on their movements by just observing them. The authors also delve into quantum physics' latest and perhaps most breathtaking offshoots -- field theory and string theory. The intricacies and ramifications of these two theories will give the reader much to ponder. In addition, the authors describe the diverse applications of quantum theory in its almost countless forms of modern technology throughout the world.
650 0 $aQuantum theory$vPopular works.
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700 1 $aHill, Christopher T.,$d1951-
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