Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of physicists for 100 years. Jim Baggott traces the story, the personalities and the rivalries, through 40 turning-point moments.
Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of physicists for 100 years. Jim Baggott traces the story, the personalities and the rivalries, through 40 turning-point moments.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to work with Shell International Petroleum Company and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation (OUP, 2015), Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' (OUP, 2012), and A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I: Quantum in Action * 1: An Act of Desperation: Berlin 1900 * 2: Independent Energy Quanta: Bern 1905 * 3: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps: Manchester 1913 * 4: Wave-particle Duality: Paris 1923 * 5: Strangely Beautiful Interior: Helgoland 1925 * 6: A Late Erotic Outburst: Swiss Alps 1925 * 7: The Self-rotating Electron: Leiden 1925 * Part II: Quantum Probability and Quantum Uncertainty * 8: Quantum Probability: Göttingen 1926 * 9: The Whole Idea of Quantum Jumps Necessarily Leads to Nonsense: Copenhagen 1926 * 10: Uncertainty Principle: Copenhagen 1927 * 11: The Copenhagen Interpretation: Copenhagen 1927 * 12: Complementarity: Lake Como 1927 * Part III: Quantum Interpretation * 13: Gedankenexperiment: Brussels 1927 * 14: An Absolute Wonder: Cambridge 1927 * 15: A Certain Unreasonableness: Brussels 1930 * 16: A Bolt from the Blue: Copenhagen 1935 * 17: The Paradox of Schrödinger's Cat: Oxford 1935 * Part IV: Quantum Fields * 18: Crisis: Shelter Island 1947 * 19: Quantum Electrodynamics: Oldstone 1949 * 20: Gauge Symmetry and Gauge Theories: Princeton 1954 * 21: Three Quarks for Muster Mark: Pasadena 1963 * 22: The Higgs Mechanism: Edinburgh 1965 * Part V: Quantum Particles * 23: Electro-weak Unification: Harvard 1967 * 24: Deep Inelastic Scattering: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1967 * 25: Asymptotic Freedom and Quantum Chromodynamics: Harvard 1973 * 26: The November Revolution: Brookhaven and SLAC 1974 * 27: The W and Z Bosons: CERN 1983 * 28: Completing the Picture: Fermilab 1994 * Part VI: Quantum Reality * 29: Hidden Variables: Princeton 1951 * 30: Bell's Theorem: Geneva 1964 * 31: The Aspect Experiments: Paris 1982 * 32: Beating the Uncertainty Principle: Albuquerque 1991 * 33: Three-photon GHZ States: Vienna 2000 * 34: Reality, Whether Local or Not: Vienna 2007 * Part VII: Quantum Gravity * 35: That Damned Equation: Princeton 1967 * 36: The First Superstring Revolution: Aspen 1984 * 37: The Quantum Structure of Space: Santa Barbara 1986 * 38: No Consistency Without Contingency: Durham 1995 * 39: The Second Superstring Revolution: Los Angeles 1995 * 40: Resolving the Impasse: CERN 2008 * Epilogue * Quantum Timeline * Name Index * Subject Index
* Part I: Quantum in Action * 1: An Act of Desperation: Berlin 1900 * 2: Independent Energy Quanta: Bern 1905 * 3: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps: Manchester 1913 * 4: Wave-particle Duality: Paris 1923 * 5: Strangely Beautiful Interior: Helgoland 1925 * 6: A Late Erotic Outburst: Swiss Alps 1925 * 7: The Self-rotating Electron: Leiden 1925 * Part II: Quantum Probability and Quantum Uncertainty * 8: Quantum Probability: Göttingen 1926 * 9: The Whole Idea of Quantum Jumps Necessarily Leads to Nonsense: Copenhagen 1926 * 10: Uncertainty Principle: Copenhagen 1927 * 11: The Copenhagen Interpretation: Copenhagen 1927 * 12: Complementarity: Lake Como 1927 * Part III: Quantum Interpretation * 13: Gedankenexperiment: Brussels 1927 * 14: An Absolute Wonder: Cambridge 1927 * 15: A Certain Unreasonableness: Brussels 1930 * 16: A Bolt from the Blue: Copenhagen 1935 * 17: The Paradox of Schrödinger's Cat: Oxford 1935 * Part IV: Quantum Fields * 18: Crisis: Shelter Island 1947 * 19: Quantum Electrodynamics: Oldstone 1949 * 20: Gauge Symmetry and Gauge Theories: Princeton 1954 * 21: Three Quarks for Muster Mark: Pasadena 1963 * 22: The Higgs Mechanism: Edinburgh 1965 * Part V: Quantum Particles * 23: Electro-weak Unification: Harvard 1967 * 24: Deep Inelastic Scattering: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1967 * 25: Asymptotic Freedom and Quantum Chromodynamics: Harvard 1973 * 26: The November Revolution: Brookhaven and SLAC 1974 * 27: The W and Z Bosons: CERN 1983 * 28: Completing the Picture: Fermilab 1994 * Part VI: Quantum Reality * 29: Hidden Variables: Princeton 1951 * 30: Bell's Theorem: Geneva 1964 * 31: The Aspect Experiments: Paris 1982 * 32: Beating the Uncertainty Principle: Albuquerque 1991 * 33: Three-photon GHZ States: Vienna 2000 * 34: Reality, Whether Local or Not: Vienna 2007 * Part VII: Quantum Gravity * 35: That Damned Equation: Princeton 1967 * 36: The First Superstring Revolution: Aspen 1984 * 37: The Quantum Structure of Space: Santa Barbara 1986 * 38: No Consistency Without Contingency: Durham 1995 * 39: The Second Superstring Revolution: Los Angeles 1995 * 40: Resolving the Impasse: CERN 2008 * Epilogue * Quantum Timeline * Name Index * Subject Index
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