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Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics´ Most Fundamental Theory
Art Hobson
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Description for Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics´ Most Fundamental Theory
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 31. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or coherent bundles of energy called quanta that (like everything else) obey certain rules. In the case of the quantum, these rules are called quantum physics. This is ... Read more
Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or coherent bundles of energy called quanta that (like everything else) obey certain rules. In the case of the quantum, these rules are called quantum physics. This is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190679637
SKU
V9780190679637
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Ref
99-14
About Art Hobson
Art Hobson is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he continues to keep a campus office and remains quite active in research.
Reviews for Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics´ Most Fundamental Theory
Tales of the Quantum - a slim volume very handsomely produced by Oxford U.P. - is his most ambitious undertaking, the capstone of a distinguished career. ... This is certainly an ambitious book, one in which the author has clearly invested a great deal of thought. It is, in its eccentric way, an important book, not least because it ... Read more