Quantum Legacies

Quantum Legacies

Dispatches from an Uncertain World

Lightman, Alan; Kaiser, David

The University of Chicago Press

06/2022

360

Mole

Inglês

9780226819990

15 a 20 dias

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Foreword
Alan Lightman
Introduction

Quanta

1 All Quantum, No Solace
2 Life-and-Death: When Nature Refuses to Select
3 Operation: Neutrino
4 Quantum Theory by Starlight

Calculating

5 From Blackboards to Bombs
6 Boiling Electrons
7 Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
8 Training Quantum Mechanics
9 Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing

Matter

10 Pipe Dreams
11 Something for Nothing
12 Higgs Hunting
13 When Fields Collide

Cosmos

14 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
15 Gaga for Gravitation
16 The Other Evolution Wars
17 No More Lonely Hearts
18 Learning from Gravitational Waves
19 A Farewell to Stephen Hawking
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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