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david lindley holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and has been an editor at Nature, Science, and Science News. He is the author of The End of Physics, Degrees Kelvin, Where Does the Weirdness Go?, and Boltzmann’s Atom. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Introduction | p. 1 |
Irritable Particles | p. 9 |
Entropy Strives Toward a Maximum | p. 20 |
An Enigma, A Subject of Profound Astonishment | p. 32 |
How Does an Electron Decide? | p. 44 |
An Audacity Unheard of in Earlier Times | p. 55 |
Lack of Knowledge is no Guarantee of Success | p. 69 |
How Can One Be Happy? | p. 83 |
I Would Rather Be A Cobbler | p. 94 |
Something Has Happened | p. 105 |
The Soul of the Old System | p. 117 |
I Am Inclined to Give Up Determinism | p. 129 |
Our Words Don't Fit | p. 140 |
Awful Bohr Incantation Terminology | p. 152 |
Now the Game Was Won | p. 164 |
Life-Experience and Not Scientific Experience | p. 176 |
Possibilities of Unambiguous Interpretation | p. 187 |
The No-Man's-Land Between Logic and Physics | p. 200 |
Anarchy at Last | p. 210 |
Postscript | p. 220 |
Acknowledgments | p. 223 |
Notes | p. 225 |
Bibliography | p. 243 |
Index | p. 249 |
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