The Age of EntanglementKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11. nóv. 2008 - 352 síður In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as “spooky action at a distance.” In that same year, Erwin Schrödinger christened this correlation “entanglement.” Yet its existence was mostly ignored until 1964, when the Irish physicist John Bell demonstrated just how strange this entanglement really was. Drawing on the papers, letters, and memoirs of the twentieth century’s greatest physicists, Gilder both humanizes and dramatizes the story by employing the scientists’ own words in imagined face-to-face dialogues. The result is a richly illuminating exploration of one of the most exciting concepts of quantum physics. |
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Quantized Light September 1909June 1913 | 25 |
The Quantized Atom November 1913 | 32 |
The Unpicturable Quantum World Summer 1921 | 40 |
On the Streetcar Summer 1923 | 49 |
Light Waves and Matter Waves November 1923December 1924 | 60 |
Brazil 1952 | 208 |
Letters from the World 1952 | 215 |
Standing Up to Oppenheimer 19521957 | 221 |
Letters from Einstein 19521954 | 223 |
Epilogue to the Story of Bohm 1954 | 227 |
The Discovery 19521979 | 231 |
Things Change 1952 | 233 |
What Is Proved by Impossibility Proofs 19631964 | 237 |
Pauli and Heisenberg at the Movies January 8 1925 | 68 |
Heisenberg in Helgoland June 1925 | 74 |
Schrödinger in Arosa Christmas and New Years Day 19251926 | 82 |
What You Can Observe April 28 and Summer 1926 | 86 |
This Damned Quantum Jumping October 1926 | 94 |
Uncertainty Winter 19261927 | 101 |
Solvay 1927 | 110 |
The Spinning World 19271929 | 115 |
Solvay 1930 | 123 |
Things Fall Apart 19311933 | 128 |
The QuantumMechanical Description of Reality 19341935 | 150 |
The Search and the Indictment 19401952 | 179 |
Princeton AprilJune 10 1949 | 181 |
Berkeley 19411945 | 185 |
Quantum Theory at Princeton 19461948 | 192 |
Princeton June 15December 1949 | 197 |
Quantum Theory 1951 | 199 |
Hidden Variables and Hiding Out 19511952 | 202 |
A Little Imagination 1969 | 250 |
Nothing Simple About Experimental Physics 19711975 | 269 |
In Which the Settings Are Changed 19751982 | 282 |
Entanglement Comes of Age 19812005 | 291 |
Schrödingers Centennial 1987 | 293 |
Counting to Three 19851988 | 297 |
Against Measurement 19891990 | 303 |
Are You Telling Me This Could Be Practical? 19891991 | 312 |
The Turn of the Millennium 19972002 | 316 |
A Mystery Perhaps 19812006 | 325 |
Back in Vienna 2005 | 331 |
Glossary | 337 |
Longer Summaries | 347 |
Notes | 351 |
Bibliography | 409 |
Acknowledgments | 417 |
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