The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Robert P. Crease

The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Robert P. Crease

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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstreamThe discovery of the quantum--the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities--planted a ...

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