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Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is simply the most successful accounts of the physical universe ever before devised. Its ideas underpin a lot of the 21st-century technology that we now neglect. But at exactly the same time it offers completely undermined our potential to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The North american physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody comprehends it. The Quantum Tale starts in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing technology. Popular science article writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the area of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and enhanced the theory--and opened up the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To consider us from the story's beginning to present, Baggott organizes his narrative around 40 turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably destined up with the people involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their quarrels and, not least, their thrills as they sense they are redefining what certainty means. Through the mix of story and technology, we experience their amazing leaps of theory and test, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black slots, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more.Brisk, clear, and convincing, The Quantum Tale is technology writing at its best. A convincing look at the 100-year background of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster since.
