02637cam a22002898i 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000800120042000800128050002600136082001100162100003100173245009000204264005000294300009200344504005100436505134400487520027301831650002002104650002402124856010702148856009202255BJBSDDR20231016105108.0ta160727t20172017nyuab    b    001 0 eng c  a9781633882393  a163388239X  aDLCbspacDLC  aspa  aeng14aQC 174.12bW182q 201700a530.121 aWalker, Michael S.,d1939-10aQuantum fuzz :bthe strange true makeup of everything around us /cMichael S. Walker. 1aAmherst, New York :bPrometheus Books,c2017.  a448 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations (some color), color map ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPlanck, Einstein, Bohr - experiments and early ideas -- Heisenberg, Dirac, Schroedinger - quantum mechanics and the quantum atom -- Application -six hundred million watts! -- The essential features of quantum mechanics -- Clash of titans -what is real? uncertainty, entanglement, John Bell, and parallel worlds -- What does it all mean - quantum mechanics, mathematics, and the nature of science -- Applications - quantum computing, code cracking, teleportation, and encryption -- Galaxies, black holes, gravity waves, matter, the forces of nature, the Higgs boson, dark matter, dark energy, and string theory -- Energy, momentum, and the spatial states of the hydrogen atom -- Spin and magnetism -- Exclusion and the Periodic table -- The physics underlying the chemistry of the elements -- A few types of chemical bonds, for example -- The makeup of solid materials -- Insulators and electrical conduction in normal metals and semiconductors -- Superconductors I - definition, and applications in transportation, medicine and computing -- Fusion power - lasers and tokomaks -- Magnetism, magnets, magnetic materials and their applications -- Graphenes, carbon fibers and one "dream" application -- Semiconductors and electronic applications -- Superconductors II - large scale applications in science, power generation, and transmission.  a"A lucid introduction to the basics of quantum physics for the lay reader, showing how much the scientific understanding of reality has changed in the last century and how important this science is to technology, the economy, and modern life"--cProvided by publisher. 0aQuantum theory. 4aTeoría cuántica423Contributor biographical informationuhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016031862-b.html423Publisher descriptionuhttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016031862-d.html