In the epic of 20th-century physics, quantum mechanics isn't just a central story—it is the central story. The narrative of the development of the microphysical contains just about everything one could desire for a popular-science book: complicated science that demands guided explanation; dramatic concepts that overturn almost all of our intuitions; the trauma of interwar Europe; and a cast of household names in the physics world—Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and especially Albert Einstein.
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