Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory

by Art Hobson

Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or "coherent" bundles of energy called "quanta" that (like everything...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190679638
• ISBN13: 9780190679637
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"