Quantum
Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
by Manjit Kumar
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For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superblywritten history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its heart.For 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theo...
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