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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crease, Robert P., author.

Goldhaber, Alfred S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory--Popular works.

Quantum theory.

Physics--Popular works.

Physics.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

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.

Contents:

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 manufactured : 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.

ISBN:

9780393067927

0393067920

OCLC:

879329423