The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Robert P. Crease

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

Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Robert P. Crease

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.Quantum imagery...

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