In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

This popular-science book explains quantum physics to readers without a specialist background. Gribbin traces the early twentieth-century crisis in classical physics and the ideas of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and their successors: quanta, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and the strange behaviour of matter at small scales. Thought experiments, including Schrödinger's cat, are used to show how measurement and probability enter the theory. Later chapters take up applications and remaining disagreements about what the mathematics means. The book is an explanatory history of a scientific revolution, not a textbook of calculations and not a biography of any one physicist.

Bound in buckram blocked with a design by the artist. Dark blue slipcase printed with binding design.