Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
of Manjit Kumar
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For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its heart.For 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself. Yet Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century.Quantum sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age. In 1925 the quantum pioneers nearly all hailed from upper-middle-class academic families; most were German; and their average age was 24. But it was their irrational, romantic spirit, formed in reaction to the mechanised slaughter of the First World War that inspired their will to test science to its limits.The essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of young men at its heart.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 360 pages
- Publisher Icon Books
- Publication Date April 2nd 2009
- First Publication March 5th 2007
- Language English
- ISBN 9781848310353
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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