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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Introduction | xv | |
| Prologue: Nothing Is Real | 1 | |
| Part 1 | The Quantum | |
| Chapter 1 | Light | 7 |
| Waves or Particles? | ||
| Wave Theory Triumphant | ||
| Chapter 2 | Atoms | 19 |
| Nineteenth-Century Atoms | ||
| Einstein's Atoms | ||
| Electrons | ||
| Ions | ||
| X Rays | ||
| Radioactivity | ||
| Inside the Atom | ||
| Chapter 3 | Light and Atoms | 33 |
| The Blackbody Clue | ||
| An Unwelcome Revolution | ||
| What Is h? | ||
| Einstein, Light, and Quanta | ||
| Chapter 4 | Bohr's Atom | 51 |
| Jumping Electrons | ||
| Hydrogen Explained | ||
| An Element of Chance: God's Dice | ||
| Atoms in Perspective | ||
| Chemistry Explained | ||
| Part 2 | Quantum Mechanics | |
| Chapter 5 | Photons and Electrons | 81 |
| Particles of Light | ||
| Particle/Wave Duality | ||
| Electron Waves | ||
| A Break With the Past | ||
| Pauli and Exclusion | ||
| Where Next? | ||
| Chapter 6 | Matrices and Waves | 101 |
| Breakthrough in Heligoland | ||
| Quantum Math | ||
| Schrodinger's Theory | ||
| A Backward Step | ||
| Quantum Cookery | ||
| Chapter 7 | Cooking with Quanta | 123 |
| Antimatter | ||
| Inside the Nucleus | ||
| Lasers and Masers | ||
| The Mighty Micro | ||
| Superconductors | ||
| Life Itself | ||
| Part 3 | ... And Beyond | |
| Chapter 8 | Chance and Uncertainty | 155 |
| The Meaning of Uncertainty | ||
| The Copenhagen Interpretation | ||
| The Experiment With Two Holes | ||
| Collapsing Waves | ||
| Complementarity Rules | ||
| Chapter 9 | Paradoxes and Possibilities | 177 |
| The Clock in the Box | ||
| The "EPR Paradox" | ||
| Time Travel | ||
| Einstein's Time | ||
| Something for Nothing | ||
| Schrodinger's Cat | ||
| The Participatory Universe | ||
| Chapter 10 | The Proof of the Pudding | 215 |
| The Spin Paradox | ||
| The Polarization Puzzle | ||
| The Bell Test | ||
| The Proof | ||
| What Does It Mean? | ||
| Confirmation and Applications | ||
| Chapter 11 | Many Worlds | 235 |
| Who Observes the Observers? | ||
| Schrodinger's Cats | ||
| Beyond Science Fiction | ||
| Beyond Einstein? | ||
| A Second Look | ||
| Beyond Everett | ||
| Our Special Place | ||
| Epilogue: Unfinished Business | 255 | |
| Twisted Space-Time | ||
| Broken Symmetry | ||
| Supergravity | ||
| Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation? | ||
| Inflation and the Universe | ||
| Bibliography | 277 | |
| Index | 291 |
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E.cordell Johnson Iv
reviewed In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality on August 13, 2007 In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
This book is f******n awesome.
i read it in highschool and then again in college - because while you're reading it it's like having a really good teacher who holds your attention and makes you understand unusual ideas but as soon as you finish and put it down you're like "wait, how does that work again?" so for me at least, i have to be reading it to maintain that state of enlightenment. maybe after a certain number of reads it will stick - because i am not naturally good at this sort of subject.
this book explains generally the perplexing, mind-boggling, paradoxical principles of quantum physics while relating the history of discoveries leading up to and through it, including the discovery of the X-Ray.
I think this book is meant for laypeople, you don't need to understand any equations, but even for an expert, I think having the history laid out like this, and told in such a personable voice, must be interesting and helpful.
this book also led me to read other books about heisenberg and einstein.
it definitely make you think. yeah, it definitely makes you think.
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