Real Quanta

A readable, quirky entry point into the weird world of quantum mechanics, and how it powers our everyday lives Popular science, with legendary physicists Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr as the reader's guide Set in atmospheric Brussels, at the Famous Hotel Métropole, where early quantum theories were hammered out in debates at the café Also a fascinating history of what began as a "crazy" theory that blew up to become part of the scientific, military, and technological basis of our modern world The new series Genius airing on the National Geographic Channel also dramatizes Einstein's life and was just renewed for a second season Book was translated from Dutch and originally distributed as a gift at an international physics conference in 2016 With an epilogue that tinally reveals the mysterious fate of Schrödinger’s Cat!