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Paul Halpern

Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

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When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled against what they considered the most preposterous aspect of quantum mechanics: its randomness. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrödinger constructed his famous fable of a cat that was neither alive nor dead not to explain quantum mechanics but to highlight the apparent absurdity of a theory gone wrong. But these t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-465-09683-1
  • EAN: 9780465096831
  • Produktnummer: 20043466
  • Verlag: Basic Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.2 cm 295 g
  • Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor


Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and the author of thirteen popular science books, most recently Edge of the Universe. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and an Athenaeum Literary Award. Halpern has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Future Quest, Radio Times, several shows on the History Channel, and The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special. He has contributed opinion pieces for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and is also a regular contributor to NOVA's The Nature of Reality physics blog. He lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

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