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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
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A brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particlesone 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 Schrdinger christened this spooky correlation entanglement. Yet its existence wasnt 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 universitiesfrom J. Robert Oppenheimers Berkeley to the Princeton of Einstein and Bohm to Bells Stanford sabbaticaland we visit centers of European physics: Copenhagen, home to Bohrs 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 centurys greatest physicists, Louisa Gilder both humanizes and dramatizes the story by employing their own words in imagined facetoface dialogues. Here are Bohr and Einstein clashing, and Heisenberg and Pauli deciding which mysteries to pursue. We see Schrdinger and Louis de Broglie pave the way for Bell, whose work is here given a longoverdue revisiting. And with his characteristic matteroffact eloquence, Richard Feynman challenges his contemporaries to make something of this entanglement.
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