Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
Taking the Quantum Leap won the National Book Award. World renowned physicist Fred Alan Wolf explains the scientific concepts of quantum mechanics in accessible language for nonscientists. Taking the Quantum Leap entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9780062036391
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Quantum mechanicsHistory of physicsPhilosophy of science
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1982)
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