A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of
discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the
quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain
stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of
probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in
zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles
that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists
have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in
the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds around
them, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars,
and a new nuclear age. In Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces
readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to
understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a
series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of
discovery and debate among the great minds of the era-Albert
Einstein, Erwin Schroedinger, Stephen Hawking, and many more who
have indelibly shaped our understanding of nature-as they have
tried to make sense of a messy world. Ranging across space and
time, the episodes span the heady 1920s, the dark days of the
1930s, the turbulence of the Cold War, and the peculiar political
realities that followed. In those eras as in our own, researchers'
ambition has often been to transcend the vagaries of here and now,
to contribute lasting insights into how the world works that might
reach beyond a given researcher's limited view. In Quantum
Legacies, Kaiser unveils the difficult and unsteady work required
to forge some shared understanding between individuals and across
generations, and in doing so, he illuminates the deep ties between
scientific exploration and the human condition.
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