The age of entanglement
by Louisa Gilder · first published 2008
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…love this sort of "Historical Fiction" where interactions and conversations between The Great People of Science are imagined and portrayed. A great example of this is Louisa Gilder's wonderful book _The_Age_Of_Entanglement:_When_Quantum_Physics_was_Reborn https://www.amazon.com/Age-Entanglement-Quantum-Physics-Rebo...
on “Lomuto's Comeback” ↗…have been several books recently that describe the saga of twentieth century quantum physics, culminating in the realisation that entangelement is a real thing that has consequences. My favourite is "The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn" by Louisa Gilder. It's a fun book. The history is fascinating. I'm waiting for a book that describes the deeper sociological aspect. A book with attitude. For instance,…
on “Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?” ↗From the article: > I also loved Louisa Gilder’s The Age of Entanglement and Kip Thorne’s Black Holes and Time Warps. That one was slow for me, but it was like being in the kind of physics class I always dreamed of taking. At Harvard I had taken a class, Physics for Poets.…
on “A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics” ↗…equations, it has a really nice perspective on building up relativity and some alternative pathways. Funny enough, I had just gotten to the chapter on Schrödinger's derivation of his quantum equation in "The Age of Entanglement" by Louisa Gilder, a book whose style of historical scientific fiction reminds me of reading Asimov's Foundation series.
on “Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (1950) [pdf]” ↗