The Quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught US to love uncertainity/ Robert P Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

By:

Crease ,Robert P

Contributor(s):

Goldhaber, Alfred Scharff

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton 2015Description: viii, 332p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780393351927

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DDC classification:

530.12 CRE 22

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.

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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.

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