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" Quantum : "
Jim Al-Khalili
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BL
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693731
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b515920
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| Main Entry
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Al-Khalili, Jim,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Quantum : : [a guide for the perplexed] /\ Jim Al-Khalili
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Paperback edition
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, 2004
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, ©2003
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280 pages :: color illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1841882380
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: 9781841882383
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| Notes
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Subtitle from cover
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-272) and index
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| Contents
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Nature's conjuring trick. Buckyballs and the dual-slit experiment / Markus Arndt & Anton Zeilinger. Origins. Probability and chance. Radioactive decay / Ron Johnson. Spooky connections. Quantum chaology / Michael Berry. The watchers and the watched. The great debate. Quantum reality, according to de Broglie and Bohm / Chris Dewdney. The subatomic world. Elementary constituents / Frank Close. The search for the ultimate theory. Accentuating the negative / Paul Davies. Putting the quantum to work. Bose-Einstein condensates / Ed Hinds -- Quantum mechanics and biology / Johnjoe McFadden. Into the new millennium. Quantum computing / Andrew Steane
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Quantum theory-- History.
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Quantum theory.
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QC174.12.A42 2004
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QC174.12.A42 2004
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