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100 1 $aGribbin, John,$d1946-
245 10 $aIn search of Schrödinger's cat :$bquantum physics and reality /$cJohn Gribbin.
260 $aToronto ;$aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c1984.
300 $axvi, 302 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.
505 0 $aPart 1. The quantum. 1. Light : Waves of particles? ; Wave theory triumphant -- 2. Atoms : Nineteenth-century atoms ; Einstein's atoms ; Electrons ; Ions ; X rays ; Radioactivity ; Inside the atom -- 3. Light and atoms : The blackbody clue ; An unwelcome revolution ; What is h? ; Einstein, light, and quanta -- 4. Bohr's atom : Jumping electrons ; Hydrogen explained ; An element of change: God's dice ; Atoms in perspective ; Chemistry explained -- Part 2. Quantum mechanics. 5. Photons and electrons : Particles of light ; Particle/wave duality ; Electron waves ; A break with the past ; Pauli and exclusion ; Where next? -- 6. Matrices and waves : Breakthrough in heligoland ; Quantum math ; Schrödinger's theory ; A backward step ; Quantum cookery -- 7. Cooking with quanta : Antimatter ; Inside the nucleus ; Lasers and masers ; The mighty micro ; Superconductors ; Life itself -- Part 3. And beyond. 8. Chance and uncertainty : The meaning of uncertainty ; The Copenhagen interpretation ; The experiment with two holes ; Collapsing waves ; Complementarity rules -- 9. Paradoxes and possibilities : The clock in the box ; The "EPR paradox" ; Time travel ; Einstein's time ; Something for nothing ; Schrödinger's cat ; The participatory universe -- 10. The proof of the pudding : The spin paradox ; The polarization puzzle ; The Bell test ; The proof ; What does it mean? ; Confirmation and applications -- 11. Many worlds : Who observes the observers? ; Schrödinger's cats ; Beyond science fiction ; Beyond Einstein? ; A second look ; Beyond Everett ; Our special place -- Unfinished business : Twisted space-time ; Broken symmetry ; Supergravity ; Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation? ; Inflation and the universe.
520 $aAn astrophysicist offers an introduction to the theoretical principles, practical applications, and far-reaching implications of quantum physics and quantum mechanics.
600 10 $aSchrödinger, Erwin,$d1887-1961.
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