Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...
During the early 1900’s, [Einstein] was virtually at war with quantum theory. Its unofficial leader, [Niels Bohr], was constantly rebutting Einstein’s elaborate thought experiments aimed at ...
Alongside Max Planck's work on quanta of heat, and Niels Bohr's later work on quanta of matter, Einstein's work anchors the most shocking idea in 20th-century physics: we live in a quantum ...
Bohr was unperturbed by the implications, trusting in the equations. But Einstein would not accept a style of physics that, ...
Related: 'Einstein's equations need to be refined': Tweaks to general ... "We can learn plenty of things," Kai Hendriks, a doctoral student at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen ...
Ekert, who splits his time between the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, describes how he used ...
But it was clear to everybody - after the success of Albert Einstein's idea that light waves sometimes behave as particles, and of Niels Bohr's idea that electrons in atoms do not move ...
Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional work and personal convictions ...