Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to work with Shell International Petroleum Company and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation (OUP, 2015), Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' (OUP, 2012), and A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005).
Part I: Quantum in Action 1. An Act of Desperation: Berlin 1900 2. Independent Energy Quanta: Bern 1905 3. Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps: Manchester 1913 4. Wave-particle Duality: Paris 1923 5. Strangely Beautiful Interior: Helgoland 1925 6. A Late Erotic Outburst: Swiss Alps 1925 7. The Self-rotating Electron: Leiden 1925 Part II: Quantum Probability and Quantum Uncertainty 8. Quantum Probability: Gottingen 1926 9. The Whole Idea of Quantum Jumps Necessarily Leads to Nonsense: Copenhagen 1926 10. Uncertainty Principle: Copenhagen 1927 11. The Copenhagen Interpretation: Copenhagen 1927 12. Complementarity: Lake Como 1927 Part III: Quantum Interpretation 13. Gedankenexperiment: Brussels 1927 14. An Absolute Wonder: Cambridge 1927 15. A Certain Unreasonableness: Brussels 1930 16. A Bolt from the Blue: Copenhagen 1935 17. The Paradox of Schrodinger's Cat: Oxford 1935 Part IV: Quantum Fields 18. Crisis: Shelter Island 1947 19. Quantum Electrodynamics: Oldstone 1949 20. Gauge Symmetry and Gauge Theories: Princeton 1954 21. Three Quarks for Muster Mark: Pasadena 1963 22. The Higgs Mechanism: Edinburgh 1965 Part V: Quantum Particles 23. Electro-weak Unification: Harvard 1967 24. Deep Inelastic Scattering: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1967 25. Asymptotic Freedom and Quantum Chromodynamics: Harvard 1973 26. The November Revolution: Brookhaven and SLAC 1974 27. The W and Z Bosons: CERN 1983 28. Completing the Picture: Fermilab 1994 Part VI: Quantum Reality 29. Hidden Variables: Princeton 1951 30. Bell's Theorem: Geneva 1964 31. The Aspect Experiments: Paris 1982 32. Beating the Uncertainty Principle: Albuquerque 1991 33. Three-photon GHZ States: Vienna 2000 34. Reality, Whether Local or Not: Vienna 2007 Part VII: Quantum Gravity 35. That Damned Equation: Princeton 1967 36. The First Superstring Revolution: Aspen 1984 37. The Quantum Structure of Space: Santa Barbara 1986 38. No Consistency Without Contingency: Durham 1995 39. The Second Superstring Revolution: Los Angeles 1995 40. Resolving the Impasse: CERN 2008 Epilogue Quantum Timeline Name Index Subject Index
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