Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-272) and index.
Contents
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 -- Watchers and the watched -- Great debate. Quantum reality, according to de Broglie and Bohm / Chris Dewdney -- Subatomic world. Elementary constituents / Frank Close -- Search for the ultimate theory. Accentuating the negative / Paul Davies -- Putting the quantum to work. Bose-Einstein condensates / Ed Hines -- Quantum mechanics and biology / Johnjoe McFadden -- Into the new millennium. Quantum computing / Andrew Steane.