Quantum Physics for Poets Book

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................11
CHAPTER 1. If You're Not Shocked, You Haven't Understood....................13
CHAPTER 2. Before the Quantum....................41
CHAPTER 3. Light and Its Various Curiosities....................55
CHAPTER 4: Rebels Storm the Office....................83
CHAPTER 5: Heisenberg's Uncertainty....................119
CHAPTER 6: Quantum Science at Work....................149
CHAPTER 7 Controversy: Einstein vs. Bohr ... and Bell....................181
CHAPTER 8: Modern Quantum Physics....................219
CHAPTER 9: Gravity and Quantum Theory: Strings....................249
CHAPTER 10: Quantum Physics for Millennium III....................271
APPENDIX: SPIN....................289
NOTES....................299
INDEX....................329
INDEX OF FIGURES....................337