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245 14 a| The quantum moment :b| how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty /c| Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber.;

246 30 a| How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| W.W. Norton & Company,c| [2014];

300 a| viii, 332 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.;

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The quantum moment : how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty / Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber.

Author/creator	Crease, Robert P.
Other author	Goldhaber, Alfred S.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Copyright Date	©2014
Description	viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Quantum theory--Popular works. Physics--Popular works.

Portion of title	How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty
Contents	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.
Abstract	The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.
Genre/form	Popular works.
LCCN	2014011427
ISBN	9780393067927 (hardcover)
ISBN	0393067920 (hardcover)

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