{"product_id":"too-big-for-a-single-mind-how-the-greatest-generation-of-physicists-uncovered-the-quantum-world-9781615199204","title":"Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe epic story of how, amid two world wars, history\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003es greatest physicists redefined the universe and the reality we live in\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others--came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so outrageous and shocking, so contrary to traditional physics, that its own founders rebelled against it until the equations held up and fundamentally changed our understanding of reality. In propulsive, page-turning chapters, Tobias Hürter takes us back to a uniquely harrowing and momentous time, when war and revolution upended the lives of these renegade scientists, who were forced to crisscross Europe as they worked together to topple classical physics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These tumultuous decades would also be the culmination and closing chapter of a more serendipitous--and more human--kind of research. Today, physics has principally become a practical discipline conducted at large-scale facilities. Great breakthroughs are now rarely made in the mind, or among colleagues sparring during walks on the beach, at Christmas parties, in university cafeterias, or late-into-the-night debates at conferences. \u003ci\u003eToo Big for a Single Mind\u003c\/i\u003e takes us back to this golden age of physics, when the creation of quantum theory demanded the combined efforts of friends and rivals, lovers and loners, straight-edged intellectuals and freethinking dreamers. In this stirring, grand narrative, brought to life by the letters, notes, research papers, diaries, and memoirs they wrote, we witness the birth of an idea that not only revolutionized physics and our world, but that stands as a testament to the boundless potential of genius in collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781615199204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Tobias H\u0026#252;rter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42334552228021,"sku":"9781615199204","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8d5dcc64-687f-4018-8472-8bcf155b70f8.jpg?v=1660629064","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/too-big-for-a-single-mind-how-the-greatest-generation-of-physicists-uncovered-the-quantum-world-9781615199204","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}