Robert P. Crease

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

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A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone. —Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's MapsFrom multiverses and quantum leaps to Schrödinger's cat and time travel, quantum mechanics has irreversibly shaped the popular imagination. Entertainers and writers from Lady Gaga to David Foster Wallace take advantage of its associations and nuances. In The Quantum Moment, philosopher Robert P. Crease and physicist Alfred Scharff Goldhaber recount the fascinating story of how the quantum jumped from physics into popular culture, with brief explorat… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Goldhaber, Alfred Scharff

ISBN: 978-0-393-24599-8
EAN: 9780393245998
Produktnummer: 34247644
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'875 KB
Abbildungen: 61 illustrations, maps

Über den Autor

Robert P. Crease is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and the author of several books on science, including The Quantum Moment and The Great Equations. He lives in New York City.