Who's afraid of Schrödinger's cat? : an A-to-Z guide to all the new science ideas you need to keep up with the new thinking

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Who's afraid of Schrödinger's cat? : an A-to-Z guide to all the new science ideas you need to keep up with the new thinking

Ian Marshall & Danah Zohar ; with contributions by F. David Peat

W. Morrow, 1998

1st Quill ed

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Includes index

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Description

Quantum theorist Erwin Schrö dinger invented his now-famous cat to illustrate the apparently impossible conundrums associated with quantum physics. The cat lives in an opaque box with a fiendish device that randomly feeds it either food, allowing it to live, or poison, which kills it. But in the quantum world, all possibilities coexist and have a reality of their own, and they ensure that the cat is both alive and dead, simultaneously.

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  • NCID
    BA39321607
  • ISBN
    • 0688161073
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxx, 402 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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