The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn Book

List of Illustrations xi

A Note to the Reader xiii

Introduction: Entanglement 3

l The Socks 1978 and 1981 8

The Arguments 1909-1935

2 Quantized Light September 1909-June 1913 25

3 The Quantized Atom November 1913 32

4 The Unpicturable Quantum World Summer 1921 40

5 On the Streetcar Summer 1923 49

6 Light Waves and Matter Waves November 1923-December 1924 60

7 Pauli and Heisenberg at the Movies January 8, 1925 68

8 Heisenberg in Helgoland June 1925 74

9 Schrödinger in Arosa Christmas and New Year's Day 1925-1926 82

10 What You Can Observe April 28 and Summer 1926 86

11 This Damned Quantum Jumping October 1926 94

12 Uncertainty Winter 1926-1927 101

13 Solvay 1927 110

14 The Spinning World 1927-1929 115

15 Solvay 1930 123

Interlude: Things Fall Apart 1931-1933 128

16 The Quantum-Mechanical Description of Reality 1934-1935 150

The Search and the Indictment 1940-1952

17 Princeton April-June 10, 1949 181

18 Berkeley 1941-1945 185

19 Quantum Theory at Princeton 1946-1948 192

20 Princeton June 15-December 1949 197

21 Quantum Theory 1951 199

22 Hidden Variables and Hiding Out 1951-1952 202

23 Brazil 1952 208

24 Letters from the World 1952 215

25 Standing Up to Oppenheimer 1952-1957 221

26 Letters from Einstein 1952-1954 223

Epilogue to the Story of Bohm 1954 227

The Discovery 1952-1979

27 Things Change 1952 233

28 What Is Proved by Impossibility Proofs 1963-1964 237

29 A Little Imagination 1969 250

30 Nothing Simple About Experimental Physics 1971-1975 269

31 In Which the Settings Are Changed 1975-1982 282

Entanglement Comes of Age 1981-2005

32 Schrödinger's Centennial 1987 293

33 Counting to Three1985-1988 297

34 "Against 'Measurement'" 1989-1990 303

35 Are You Telling Me This Could Be Practical? 1989-1991 312

36 The Turn of the Millennium 1997-2002 316

37 A Mystery, Perhaps 1981-2006 325

Epilogue: Back in Vienna 2005 331

Glossary 337

Longer Summaries 347

Notes 351

Bibliography 409

Acknowledgments 417

Index 419