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Author Gilmore, R. S., 1938-

Title Alice in Quantumland : an allegory of quantum physics / Robert Gilmore.

Publication Info. New York : Copernicus, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 G425a 1995    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description ix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Into Quantumland -- The Heisenberg bank -- The mechanic's institute -- The Copenhagen school -- The Fermi-Bose academy -- Virtual reality -- Atoms in the void -- Castle rutherford -- The particle MASSquerade -- The experimental physics phun phair.
Summary Alice is about to enter a whole new Wonderland. It's Quantumland--a kind of intellectual amusement park, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. There she'll meet an Emperor who thinks his new clothes into existence, dance with the Three Quark Brothers at the Particle MASSquerade, travel back in time (running into herself), and experience all kinds of quantum effects. Readers will learn about the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts.
Subject Quantum theory -- Fiction.
Quantum theory. (OCoLC)fst01085128
Genre/Form Allegories. (OCoLC)fst01726523
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Allegories.
Fiction.
ISBN 0387914951 (acid-free paper)
9780387914954 (acid-free paper)
0387944923 (acid-free paper)
9780387944920 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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