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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 sciencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretake 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 , albert einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experimentswerner 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 heartin this magisterial book, manjit kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its corein this tour de force of science history, manjit kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth centuryand yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselvesquantum theory is weirdquantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not existyet 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-mannoxfam shop worcester 'this is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reasonbut in "quantum", kumar brings einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate
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It was a brilliant dane, neils bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theorysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeven today as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answersoxfam 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 anotherno one ever expected the atom to be as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as it turned out to bethis 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 headyet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks nature had up her sleevealmost 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 geniusjohn dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early smind-bending discoveries about the atom were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality
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Dedicated to lewis carroll and niels bohrthe brown cloth covered faded boards are worn around the edges and at the top and bottom of the spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newark hardback onlypopular science booksillustrated by john hooklamreprinted auguststories of c, g, and h used good minus
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