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As niels bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand itwhile "quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between einstein and bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of sciencein this magisterial book, manjit kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its coretake it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' nicholas lezard, guardian for most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable sciencein this tour de force of science history, manjit kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth centuryquantum theory is weirdwerner heisenberg's uncertainty principle and erwin schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strange"quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heartand yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselvesbut in "quantum", kumar brings einstein back to the centre of the quantum debatesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein , albert einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experimentsyet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself'bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the nobel prize-winning physicist murray gell-mannquantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not existoxfam shop worcester 'this is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason
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This is the first popular account of the fascinating story of the atomhe showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so turned 200 years of classical physics on its headjohn dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early ssee oxfam website for delivery information read morealmost 100 years later came one of the most important experiments in scientific history, by the young misfit new zealander, ernest rutherfordits story is one riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of geniusmind-bending discoveries about the atom were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about realityyet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks nature had up her sleeveeven today as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answersit was a brilliant dane, neils bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theoryno one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to beoxfam bookshop cheltenham all things are made of atoms, little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart but repelling upon being squeezed into one another
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Dedicated to lewis carroll and niels bohr used good minusstories of c, g, and hthe brown cloth covered faded boards are worn around the edges and at the top and bottom of the spinepopular science bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read morereprinted augustoxfam bookshop newark hardback onlyillustrated by john hooklam
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