Quantum : Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality (CD-Audio)

from PiyushC

It is like High School Physics revisited with all the cool stuff that was missing in those textbooks. Manjit Kumar has done a great job tackling this otherwise overwhelming topic. It sure was the recounting of the golden era of physics with such stalwarts, some of them, less recognised, just in c...

from page.fault

Who knew that the world of theoretical physics was so embued with scandal, ego, and rivalry? Although I'm not sure I got as much scientific knowledge out of this as I would have preferred, Kumar did an absolutely fantastic job at bringing the characters in the story of quantum to life. A brillian...

from sbarrow57

This is a great book covering the history of the struggle to understand the strange world of quantum physics. The focus on the great intellectual war between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein provides the backdrop as the author covers all of the major events from the birth of this branch of physics ...

from tjl

I really liked this book, but it's probably not a good book for most people. While it starts out with roughly high-school level physics being discussed, the later portions aren't quite as simple so that likely limits the potential audience. All that said, it takes its time building up to the fund...

from DavidWineberg

There are a number of very striking themes and trends in Quantum that other reviewers have not brought out, being dazzled, no doubt, by the swift pacing, tantalizing prose and cliffhanger hooks that Kumar employs so magnificently in Quantum. First, as someone who has struggled to understand quant...