The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn

The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn

A brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particlesâ€”one of the fundamental concepts of quantum physics.

In 1935, in what would become the most cited of all of his papers, Albert Einstein showed that quantum mechanics predicted such a correlation, which he dubbed â€œspooky action at a distance.â€ In that same year, Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger christened this spooky correlation â€œentanglement.â€ Yet its existence wasnâ€™t firmly established until 1964, in a groundbreaking paper by the Irish physicist John Bell. What happened during those years and what has happened since 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 universitiesâ€”from J. Robert Oppenheimerâ€™s Berkeley to the Princeton of Einstein and Bohm to Bellâ€™s Stanford sabbaticalâ€”and we visit centers of European physics: Copenhagen, home to Bohrâ€™s famous institute, and Munich, where Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli picnic on cheese and heady discussions of electron orbits.

Drawing on the papers, letters, and memoirs of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest physicists, Louisa Gilder both humanizes and dramatizes the story by employing their own words in imagined face-to-face dialogues. Here are Bohr and Einstein clashing, and Heisenberg and Pauli deciding which mysteries to pursue. We see SchrÃ¶dinger 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.
Country USA
Brand Audible
Manufacturer Gildan Media, LLC
Binding Audible Audiobook
Format Unabridged
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Audible
Manufacturer	Gildan Media, LLC
Binding	Audible Audiobook
Format	Unabridged
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn

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