Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality 9781848311039, 1848311036

"For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was eq

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English Pages 448 Year 2008

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
9781848311039, 1848311036

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Manjit Kumar

Table of contents :
Content: The reluctant revolutionary --
The patent slave --
The golden Dane --
The quantum atom --
When Einstein met Bohr --
The prince of duality --
Spin doctors --
The quantum magician --
'A late erotic outburst' --
Uncertainty in Copenhagen --
Solvay 1927 --
Einstein forgets relativity --
Quantum reality --
For whom Bell's theorem tolls --
The quantum demon.

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