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    Quantum Drama

    Dr Jim Baggott, Prof John L. Heilbron

    Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely baffling. From the moment of its inception, its founders struggled to understand its meaning. This struggle was most…

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    Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth

    Jim Baggott

    From acclaimed science author Jim Baggott, a pointed critique of modern theoretical physics.

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    A Beginner’s Guide to Reality

    Jim Baggott

    A Beginner’s Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don’t read philosophy. Jim Baggott’s sources range from Aristotle to The Matrix. He examines the major developments…

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    Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory

    Jim Baggott

    Quantum theory is one of the most important and successful theories of modern physical science. This book brings the reader up to date with the results of new experimental tests…

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    Quantum Reality

    Jim Baggott

    Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful of scientific theories, but what does it actually mean? From Schrodinger’s Cat to Many Worlds, Jim Baggott guides us through the many…

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    Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory

    Jim Baggott

    Quantum theory is one of the most important and successful theories of modern physical science. This book grounds the discussion of the theory’s problems directly in its mathematical formalism in…

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    Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49

    Jim Baggott

    A new edition of the account of the race to build humankind’s most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6’s FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked…

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    Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth

    Jim Baggott

    A controversial popular science title in which Jim Baggott asks whether all that we currently know about the universe is based upon science or fantasy.

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    Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed, from the ancient Greek view of indivisible atoms to quantum mechanics…

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    Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    The greatest challenge for physics is to combine its two most successful theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics. The resulting quantum theory of gravity would explain the universe across all…

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    Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Jim Baggott sets out the scientific story of creation - 13.8 billion years from the Big Bang to human consciousness, via the origins of the space and time, mass and…

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    Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    The greatest challenge for physics is to combine its two most successful theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics. The resulting quantum theory of gravity would explain the universe across all…

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    Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Jim Baggott sets out the scientific story of creation - 13.8 billion years from the Big Bang to human consciousness, via the origins of space and time, mass and light…

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    The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of…

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    The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. The pursuit of its implications has been the driving motivation of…

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    Higgs: The invention and discovery of the ‘God Particle

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    The hunt for the Higgs particle involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. Finally, on 4 July 2012, CERN made the momentous announcement that a Higgs-like particle had been discovered…

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    Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

    Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed, from the ancient Greek view of indivisible atoms to quantum mechanics…

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    The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer, Freelance science writer)

    The book combines popular and textbook presentation. It aims not to teach readers how to do quantum mechanics but rather helps them understand how to think about quantum mechanics. The…

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    The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

    Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer, Freelance science writer)

    The book combines popular and textbook presentation. It aims not to teach readers how to do quantum mechanics but rather helps them understand how to think about quantum mechanics. The…

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    The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide for Students of Chemistry and Physics

    Jim Baggott (Environmental Officer, Lubricants Marketing, Environmental Officer, Lubricants Marketing, Shell International)

    The historical development of the theory is traced from the turn of the century through to the 1930’s, and the famous debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. The book…

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