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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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