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Index
Preface
Prologue: Stormclouds London, April 1900
PART I: QUANTUM OF ACTION
1 The Most Strenuous Work of My Life Berlin, December 1900
2 Annus Mirabilis Bern, March 1905
3 A Little Bit of Reality Manchester, April 1913
4 la Comédie Française Paris, September 1923
5 A Strangely Beautiful Interior Helgoland, June 1925
6 The Self-rotating Electron Leiden, November 1925
7 A Late Erotic Outburst Swiss Alps, Christmas 1925
PART II: QUANTUM INTERPRETATION
8 Ghost Field Oxford, August 1926
9 All This Damned Quantum Jumping Copenhagen, October 1926
10 The Uncertainty Principle Copenhagen, February 1927
11 The ‘Kopenhagener Geist’ Copenhagen, June 1927
12 There is No Quantum World Lake Como, September 1927
PART III: QUANTUM DEBATE
13 The Debate Commences Brussels, October 1927
14 An Absolute Wonder Cambridge, Christmas 1927
15 The Photon Box Brussels, October 1930
16 A Bolt from the Blue Princeton, May 1935
17 The Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat Oxford, August 1935
Interlude: The First War of Physics Christmas 1938–August 1945
PART IV: QUANTUM FIELDS
18 Shelter Island Long Island, June 1947
19 Pictorial Semi-vision Thing New York, January 1949
20 A Beautiful Idea Princeton, February 1954
21 Some Strangeness in the Proportion Rochester, August 1960
22 Three Quarks for Muster Mark! New York, March 1963
23 The ‘God Particle’ Cambridge, Massachusetts, Autumn 1967
PART V: QUANTUM PARTICLES
24 Deep Inelastic Scattering Stanford, August 1968
25 Of Charm and Weak Neutral Currents Harvard, February 1970
26 The Magic of Colour Princeton/Harvard, April 1973
27 The November Revolution Long Island/Stanford, November 1974
28 Intermediate Vector Bosons Geneva, January/June 1983
29 The Standard Model Geneva, September 2003
PART VI: QUANTUM REALITY
30 Hidden Variables Princeton, Spring 1951
31 Bertlmann’s Socks Boston, September 1964
32 The Aspect Experiments Paris, September 1982
33 The Quantum Eraser Baltimore, January 1999
34 Lab Cats Stony Brook/Delft, July 2000
35 The Persistent Illusion Vienna, December 2006
PART VII: QUANTUM COSMOLOGY
36 The Wavefunction of the Universe Princeton, July 1966
37 Hawking Radiation Oxford, February 1974
38 The First Superstring Revolution Aspen, August 1984
39 Quanta of Space and Time Santa Barbara, February 1986
40 Crisis? What Crisis? Durham, Summer 1994
Epilogue: A Quantum of Solace? Geneva, March 2010
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Plate Acknowledgements
Index
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