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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aWolf, Fred Alan.
245 10 $aTaking the quantum leap :$bthe new physics for nonscientists /$cFred Alan Wolf.
250 $a1st Perennial Library ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPerennial Library,$c1989, ©1981.
300 $axv, 282 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 274-276) and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. Welcome to the machine: -- The passive observer: -- Dawn of consciousness -- All is one, all is change -- The idea of discontinuity -- Zeno and moving things -- Zeno's first paradox -- Zeno's second paradox -- Zeno's third paradox -- Aristotle's attempt to resolve Zeno's paradoxes -- Retrospect: the end of passivity -- The active observer: -- Newton's giants: the age of reason -- Galileo: the first active observer -- The continuity of mechanics -- A conversation with Isaac Newton -- The nightmare determinism -- An explanation of light and heat ... with something missing -- The ether is missing -- The ultraviolet catastrophe -- The end of the mechanical age -- pt. 2. When the universe jumped: -- The disturbing observer: -- The movement of reluctant minds -- Averting a catastrophe with lumps of energy -- Throwing stones in a quantum pond -- The energy, the whole energy, or nothing at all -- The reluctant planck -- Einstein draws a picture: the photon is born -- Quantum jumps: -- A lord eats a raisin pudding atom -- Bohr's quantum atom -- When a particle is a wave: -- A prince imagines a wave -- American grains of waves -- Schroedinger's uncertainty principle: the end of mechanical models -- Resistance to uncertainty.
505 0 $apt. 3. Is there an "out there" out there?: -- Complements of the cosmic house: -- The act of creation: observation -- The paradoxical cube -- Wave-particle duality and the principle of complementarity -- The magician's choice -- The case of the vanishing observer -- Newcomb's paradox -- The principle of complementarity: a recap -- The case of the missing universe: -- The devil's advocate -- The EPR paradox -- Faster than a speeding photon: -- Things that go bump in the night -- Qwiffs, flows, and pops -- Breaking the unbroken whole: -- When two become one -- I am this whole universe -- Imagination's architecture: the qwiff -- All or nothing at all: how to add qwiffs -- Two places at the same time: entangling qwiffs -- Schroedinger's cat in a cage -- Nothing up my sleeve: -- The search for the unseen order -- Bell's theorem: separate houses with a common basement -- We has found the hidden variables, they is us! -- pt. 4. Losing our minds: -- Consciousness and parallel universes: -- What kind of machine am I? -- The golem: a machine with consciousness? -- The mind of professor Wigner -- The paradox of Wigner's friend -- An infinite number of parallel universes.
505 0 $aHuman will and human consciousness: -- Queerer than we can imagine -- The quantum mechanics of human consciousness -- A quantum mechanical mind-body interaction: bass's model -- The impossible mission: the exercise of human will -- The atom and the "I": are the atom's conscious? -- All for one and one for all: where is my mind? -- God's will and human will -- New ideas in quantum physics: -- Idea one: taking a photograph of another Everett parallel world -- Using the quantum computer to predict the stock market -- Idea two: the future influencing the present -- An example: Wheeler's choice -- Back to the future: awareness before awareness -- What does all this mean?
586 $aNational Book Award, 1983, Science
590 $bArchive
650 0 $aQuantum theory.
650 0 $aPhysics$xHistory.
650 6 $aThéorie quantique.
650 6 $aPhysique$xHistoire.
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650 7 $aQuantum theory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01085128
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aWolf, Fred Alan.$tTaking the quantum leap.$b1st Perennial Library ed.$dNew York : Perennial Library, 1989, ©1981$w(OCoLC)624759880
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