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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 April 2016
- ISBN 9780198784777
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages492 pages
- Size 233x160x37 mm
- Weight 674 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Two 8pp black and white plate sectionn, 26 black and white line drawings 0
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Short description:
Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of physicists for 100 years. Jim Baggott traces the story, the personalities and the rivalries, through 40 turning-point moments.
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The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality, whilst at the same time denying us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend it.
Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics. This theory was discovered and refined in the first thirty years of the twentieth century and went on to become quite simply the most successful theory of physics ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we have learned to take for granted. But its success has come at a price, for it has at the same time completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at the level of its most fundamental constituents.
Rejecting the fundamental elements of uncertainty and chance implied by quantum theory, Albert Einstein once famously declared that 'God does not play dice'. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The charismatic American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it.
This is quantum theory, and this book tells its story.
Jim Baggott presents a celebration of this wonderful yet wholly disconcerting theory, with a history told in forty episodes -- significant moments of truth or turning points in the theory's development. From its birth in the porcelain furnaces used to study black body radiation in 1900, to the promise of stimulating new quantum phenomena to be revealed by CERN's Large Hadron Collider over a hundred years later, this is the extraordinary story of the quantum world.
Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Review from previous edition Review from previous edition A highly original and engaging account of the most important theory in science.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Quantum in Action
An Act of Desperation: Berlin 1900
Independent Energy Quanta: Bern 1905
Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps: Manchester 1913
Wave-particle Duality: Paris 1923
Strangely Beautiful Interior: Helgoland 1925
A Late Erotic Outburst: Swiss Alps 1925
The Self-rotating Electron: Leiden 1925
Part II: Quantum Probability and Quantum Uncertainty
Quantum Probability: Göttingen 1926
The Whole Idea of Quantum Jumps Necessarily Leads to Nonsense: Copenhagen 1926
Uncertainty Principle: Copenhagen 1927
The Copenhagen Interpretation: Copenhagen 1927
Complementarity: Lake Como 1927
Part III: Quantum Interpretation
Gedankenexperiment: Brussels 1927
An Absolute Wonder: Cambridge 1927
A Certain Unreasonableness: Brussels 1930
A Bolt from the Blue: Copenhagen 1935
The Paradox of Schrödinger's Cat: Oxford 1935
Part IV: Quantum Fields
Crisis: Shelter Island 1947
Quantum Electrodynamics: Oldstone 1949
Gauge Symmetry and Gauge Theories: Princeton 1954
Three Quarks for Muster Mark: Pasadena 1963
The Higgs Mechanism: Edinburgh 1965
Part V: Quantum Particles
Electro-weak Unification: Harvard 1967
Deep Inelastic Scattering: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1967
Asymptotic Freedom and Quantum Chromodynamics: Harvard 1973
The November Revolution: Brookhaven and SLAC 1974
The W and Z Bosons: CERN 1983
Completing the Picture: Fermilab 1994
Part VI: Quantum Reality
Hidden Variables: Princeton 1951
Bell's Theorem: Geneva 1964
The Aspect Experiments: Paris 1982
Beating the Uncertainty Principle: Albuquerque 1991
Three-photon GHZ States: Vienna 2000
Reality, Whether Local or Not: Vienna 2007
Part VII: Quantum Gravity
That Damned Equation: Princeton 1967
The First Superstring Revolution: Aspen 1984
The Quantum Structure of Space: Santa Barbara 1986
No Consistency Without Contingency: Durham 1995
The Second Superstring Revolution: Los Angeles 1995
Resolving the Impasse: CERN 2008
Epilogue
Quantum Timeline
Name Index
Subject Index
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