The Age of Entanglement; When Quantum Physics was Reborn
Louisa Gilder New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 443, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. A Note to the Reader. Glossary. Longer Summaries. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Louisa Gilder was born in Tyringham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 2000. This is her first book. 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. 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. A brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particles, one of the fundamental concepts of quantum physics. What has happened to refine the understanding of this phenomenon is the fascinating story told here. We move from a coffee shop in Zurich, where Einstein and Max von Laue discuss the madness of quantum theory, to a bar in Brazil, as David Bohm and Richard Feynman chat over cervejas. We travel to the campuses of American universities, from J. Robert Oppenheimer's Berkeley to the Princeton of Einstein and Bohm to Bell's Stanford sabbatical, and we visit centers of European physics: Copenhagen, home to Bohr's famous institute, and Munich, where Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli picnic on cheese and heady discussions of electron orbits. Here are Bohr and Einstein clashing, and Heisenberg and Pauli deciding which mysteries to pursue. We see Schrödinger and Louis de Broglie pave the way for Bell, whose work is here given a long-overdue revisiting. And with his characteristic matter-of-fact eloquence, Richard Feynman challenges his contemporaries to make something of this entanglement. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Albert Einstein, Quantum Theory, Max con Laue, David Bohm, Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer, John Bell, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Schrodinger, Louis de Broglie, Niels Bohr, Theory of Relativity, von Neumann
ISBN: 9781400044177
[Book #83275]
Price: $85.00