The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

by Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and Robert P. Crease

Book Overview

The discovery of the quantum--the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities--planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.

Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverses, quantum leaps, alternate universes, the uncertainty principle, and Schr dinger's cat get reinvented continually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393067920
• ISBN13: 9780393067927
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"