19、20世纪之交，经典物理学大厦看起来依旧坚不可摧。20世纪伊始，量子理论的种子悄然萌发，以破竹之势迅猛发展，在接下来的几十年里倾覆了几个世纪以来构建的经典世界图景，重塑了我们的科学观和世界观。我们今天对世界本质的认知，几乎都源自这一理论；我们今天应用的很多高新科技，也都以这一理论为基石。量子理论与我们每个现代人都息息相关。
从1900年的黑体辐射实验，到21世纪初CERN大型强子对撞机发现新的量子现象，量子理论经历了波澜壮阔、异彩纷呈的一百年，逐渐演变成现代物理学最重要、也最成功的理论之一，其诡谲令人发狂，其完美又令人神往。本书就带我们开启这段跨越百年的非凡旅程，以时间和地点为锚定，划分7大主题40个关键节点，追溯量子假说、哥本哈根诠释、玻尔-爱因斯坦论战、量子场论、标准模型、阿斯派克特实验、超弦革命等震古烁今的大事件，遍览普朗克、爱因斯坦、玻尔、海森伯、薛定谔、费曼、杨振宁、霍金等闻名遐迩的物理学家如何在困惑与危机中重构新理论，一步一步攀上物理学之巅。
The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world’s leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality, whilst at the same time denying us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend it.
Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics. This theory was discovered and refined in the first thirty years of the twentieth century and went on to become quite simply the most successful theory of physics ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we have learned to take for granted. But its success has come at a price, for it has at the same time completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at the level of its most fundamental constituents.
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