In Search of Schrodinger's Cat · Quantam Physics and Reality by Gribbin, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: Nothing Is Real PART ONE THE QUANTUM Chapter One: Light

Waves or Particles? Wave Theory Triumphant

Chapter Two: Atoms

Nineteenth-Century Atoms Einstein’s Atoms Electrons Ions X Rays Radioactivity Inside the Atom

Chapter Three: Light and Atoms

The Blackbody Clue An Unwelcome Revolution What Is h? Einstein, Light, and Quanta

Chapter Four : Bohr’s Atom

Jumping Electrons Hydrogen Explained An Element of Chance: God’s Dice Atoms in Perspective Chemistry Explained

PART TWO QUANTUM MECHANICS Chapter Five : Photons and Electrons

Particles of Light Particle/Wave Duality Electron Waves A Break With the Past Pauli and Exclusion Where Next?

Chapter Six : Matrices and Waves

Breakthrough in Heligoland Quantum Math Schrödinger’s Theory A Backward Step Quantum Cookery

Chapter Seven : Cooking with Quanta

Antimatter Inside the Nucleus Lasers and Masers The Mighty Micro Superconductors Life Itself

PART THREE … AND BEYOND Chapter Eight : Chance and Uncertainty

The Meaning of Uncertainty The Copenhagen Interpretation The Experiment With Two Holes Collapsing Waves Complementarity Rules

Chapter Nine : Paradoxes and Possibilities

The Clock in the Box The “EPR Paradox” Time Travel Einstein’s Time Something for Nothing Schrödinger’s Cat The Participatory Universe

Chapter Ten : The Proof of the Pudding

The Spin Paradox The Polarization Puzzle The Bell Test The Proof What Does It Mean? Confirmation and Applications

Chapter Eleven: Many Worlds

Who Observes the Observers? Schrödinger’s Cats Beyond Science Fiction Beyond Einstein? A Second Look Beyond Everett Our Special Place

Epilogue: Unfinished Business

Twisted Space-Time Broken Symmetry Supergravity Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation? Inflation and the Universe

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