by Manjit Kumar
This book would not have been possible without the unfailing support over many years of Lahmber Ram, Gurmit Kaur, Rodney Kay-Kreizman, Leonora Kay-Kreizman, Rajinder Kumar, Santosh Morgan, Eve Kay, John Gillott, and Ravi Bali.
Finally, I wish to thank, with all my heart, my wife Pandora and my sons Ravinder and Jasvinder. Words are not enough to convey what I owe to the three of you.
Manjit Kumar
London, August 2008
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART I: THE QUANTUM
Chapter 1 The Reluctant Revolutionary
Chapter 2 The Patent Slave
Chapter 3 The Golden Dane
Chapter 4 The Quantum Atom
Chapter 5 When Einstein Met Bohr
Chapter 6 The Prince of Duality
PART II: BOY PHYSICS
Chapter 7 Spin Doctors
Chapter 8 The Quantum Magician
Chapter 9 ‘A Late Erotic Outburst’
Chapter 10 Uncertainty in Copenhagen
PART III: TITANS CLASH OVER REALITY
Chapter 11 Solvay 1927
Chapter 12 Einstein Forgets Relativity
Chapter 13 Quantum Reality
PART IV: DOES GOD PLAY DICE?
Chapter 14 For Whom Bell’s Theorem Tolls
Chapter 15 The Quantum Demon
Timeline
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements