quantum theory

As problems escalate between their parents, a Harvard-educated stock boy and a would-be physicist, thirteen-year-old Danny agrees to participate in his twelve-year-old sister's experiments with quantum physics, through which he hopes he can change their lives for the better.

Discusses the upheaval that swept the scientific world over physicist Albert Einstein's refusal to accept the theory of quantum mechanics advanced by his colleague Niels Bohr.

Contains ten essays in which various scientists attempt to make clear the theories and consequences of quantum mechanics.

Presents essays based on lectures given by mathematics professors Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in which they debate the foundations of quantum mechanics, discussing in mathematical and physical terms how to combine quantum theory with the theory of general relativity.

Ben Warner is invited to join a "science camp" led by a quantum physicist Dr. Madeleine Hughes, and with his new friend Peter he discovers the secret art of Actuation--the ability to change reality by imagining it differently--but he also finds that there are people willing to kill for that secret.

Theoretical physicist Vlatko Vedral comments on the concept of information and the creation of reality, discussing the idea of entropy, the bizarre effects of quantum behavior, the origins of all the information in the universe, and other topics.

Discusses the future of science and technology in the next one hundred years, drawing from interviews with scientists in a wide variety of disciplines to make predictions about developments in the fields of computer science, biogenetics, and quantum physics.

Provides basic evidence for the nonexistence of time, explaining what a timeless universe is like and showing how the nonexistence of time solves a great paradox of modern science.

Traces the history of physics from the early Greeks through the theories of modern day scientists.