The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

W. W. Norton & Company, New York . London, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Introduction by authors, notes, acknowledgements, credits and index. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white image or cartoon. 1/4 light blue coloured back strip with silver coloured titles. 3/4 blue coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and grey and black coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photographs of authors to the rear fold over panel. In this work the authors look at quantum imagery and how an obscure portion of physics has invaded not only language but imagery as well. Such phrases as quantum leaps, alternative universes, the uncertainty principle and Schrödinger's cat are reused in movies, philosophy, T-shirts, and mugs. " ... Is a "quantum leap" because small? How uncertain is the uncertainty principle? Is this barrage of quantum vocabulary pretentious and wacky, or a fundamental shift in the way we think? All of the above say Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber In this pathbreaking book. The authors – one a philosopher, the other a physicist – draw on their training in six years of co-teaching to dramatises the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding." – from the front fold over panel blurb. A little rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. A hint of creasing of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [7], VIII, [3], 2 - 332, [8] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Modern; ISBN: 0393067920. ISBN/EAN: 9780393067927. Inventory No: 0287866. . 9780393067927