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The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty
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The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty

Robert P. Crease

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The Newtonian moment
Interlude : The Grand Design
A pixelated world
Interlude : Max Planck introduces the quantum
Quantum leaps
Interlude : Niels Bohr uses quantum leaps to make atoms go
Randomness
Interlude : Albert Einstein shows how God plays dice
The matter of identity : a quantum shoe that hasn't dropped
Interlude : Wolfgang Pauli and the Exclusion Principle, Satyendra Bose, and bosons
Sharks and tigers : schizophrenia
Interlude : Erwin Schrèodinger's map, Werner Heisenberg's map
Uncertainty
Interlude : The Uncertainty Principle
Reality manufactured : cubism and complementarity
Interlude : Complementarity, objectivity, and the double-slit experiment
No dice!
Interlude : John Bell and his theorem
Schrèodinger's cat
Interlude : the border war
Rabbit hole : the thirst for parallel worlds
Interlude : multiverses
Saving physics
The now moment.

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The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty by Robert P. Crease. ISBN 9780393067927. Published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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