Quantum Legacies
Subtitle: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226698052
Subjects: Physics, history; Quantum theory
Description: "Physicists have grappled with quantum theory for over a century. They have learned to wring precise answers from the theory's governing equations, and no experiment to date has found compelling evidence to contradict it. Even so, the conceptual apparatus remains stubbornly, famously bizarre. Physicists have tackled these conceptual uncertainties while navigating still larger ones: the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars and a new nuclear age, an unsteady Cold War stand-off and its unexpected end. Quantum Legacies introduces readers to physics' still-unfolding quest by treating iconic moments of discovery and debate among well-known figures like Albert Einstein, Erwin Schro dinger, and Stephen Hawking, and many others whose contributions have indelibly shaped our understanding of nature"--