Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World

by David Kaiser

Book Overview

A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022681999X
• ISBN13: 9780226819990
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"