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Physics Bulletin

The Quantum Universe

Alastair I. M. Rae

Published Oct 1, 1987• 0 citations
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A J G Hey and P Walters 1987 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press vii + 1 80 pp price £27.50 (£9.95 paperback) ISBN 0 521 26744 7 Hdbk, 0 521 31845 9 Pbk Described as a ‘coffee table’ book on quantum mechanics, this volume is beautifully illustrated with over a hundred photographs – many of them in colour – and according to the somewhat tongue-in-cheek preface it is aimed at bank managers, builders, housewives and especially politicians! The text is eminently readable, liberally peppered with entertaining historical anecdotes and imaginative analogies. The scope is ambitious, ranging from introductory ideas about waves and particles to the physics of superfluids and stars and the advanced concepts of Feynman diagrams and quantum chromodynamics.

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10.1088/0031-9112/38/10/026

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