The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Louisa Gilder, "The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn"
English | ISBN: 1400044170 | 2008 | 464 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1400044170 | 2008 | 464 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.
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 “spooky action at a distance.” In that same year, Erwin Schrödinger christened this spooky correlation “entanglement.” Yet its existence wasn’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
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