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Dispatches from an uncertain world, david kaiser is published by university of chicago press. Beginning with perplexities, and following a brilliant, step by step development, it carries the reader along on a current of thought that inevitably leads to a clear understanding of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and their significance to modern thought in physics. The book provides the history of the men who discovered and explored the mechanics of quantum physics. It made me to realize how much more there really is to life.
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