The uncertainty in this delightful book refers to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, an idea first postulated in 1927 by physicist Werner Heisenberg in his attempt to make sense out of the developing ...

In Uncertainty, David Lindley tells the intriguing tale of how Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr (among others) struggled to create and understand the new quantum physics. Lindley ...

Back in the days before the internet — with no e-mail, no texting, no Twitter — people wrote letters. Even famous people, like Einstein. And famous people’s letters were most likely to have been saved ...

If thinking about the quantum theory doesn’t make you schwindlig (dizzy), then you haven’t understood it, Niels Bohr, its great patriarch, famously (well, famously among physicists) remarked. Quantum ...

This is the tale of two brilliant physicists, the 1947 media war that tore apart their decades-long friendship, and the fragile nature of scientific collaboration and discovery. When they were pitted ...

Irritable particles -- Entropy strives toward a maximum -- An enigma, a subject of profound astonishment -- How does an electron decide? -- An audacity unheard of in earlier times -- Lack of knowledge ...