Quantum
(2003)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
530.12/AL-KHALILI,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 530.12/AL-KHALILI,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson ; New York : Sterling, 2003
DESCRIPTION

280 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0297843052
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Nature's conjuring trick -- Buckyballs and the dual-slit experiment / Markus Arndt & Anton Zeilinger -- Origins -- Probability and chance -- Radioactive decay / Ron Johnson -- Spooky connections -- Quantum chaology / Michael Berry -- The watchers and the watched -- The great debate -- Quantum reality, according to de Broglie and Bohm / Chris Dewdney -- The subatomic world -- Elementary constituents / Frank Close -- The search for the ultimate theory -- Accentuating the negative / Paul Davies -- Putting the quantum to work -- Bose-Einstein condensates / Ed Hines -- Quantum mechanics and biology / Johnjoe McFadden -- Into the new millennium -- Quantum computing / Andrew Steane