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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
The Quantum Universe
1. Something Strange Is Afoot
2. Being in Two Places at Once
3. What Is a Particle?
4. Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Deriving Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle from the Theory of Clocks
A Brief History of Planck’s Constant
Back to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
5. Movement as an Illusion
Wave Packets
6. The Music of the Atoms
The Atomic Box
7. The Universe in a Pin-head (and Why We Don’t Fall Through the Floor)
8. Interconnected
9. The Modern World
10. Interaction
The Quantum Measurement Problem
Anti-matter
11. Empty Space Isn’t Empty
The Standard Model of Particle Physics
The Origin of Mass
Epilogue: the Death of Stars
Further Reading
Copyright Page
Footnotes
1. Something Strange Is Afoot
Page 3
2. Being in Two Places at Once
Page 17
Page 20
3. What Is a Particle?
Page 40
4. Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Page 46
Page 50
Page 51
Page 54
Page 57
Page 67
Page 71
5. Movement as an Illusion
Page 77
Page 80
Page 84
Page 87
Page 88
Page 89
6. The Music of the Atoms
Page 99
Page 100
Page 101
Page 102
Page 104
Page 105
Page 108
7. The Universe in a Pin-head (and Why We Don’t Fall Through the Floor)
Page 118
Page 127
Page 133
8. Interconnected
Page 136
Page 139
Page 144
Page 147
Page 149
Page 150
Page 158
9. The Modern World
Page 163
10. Interaction
Page 177
Page 181
Page 182
Page 183
Page 191
Page 194
11. Empty Space Isn’t Empty
Page 204
Page 205
Page 209
Page 210
Epilogue: the Death of Stars
Page 218
Page 226
Page 229
Page 230
Page 231
Page 235
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