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A history of physics for armchair scientists and other curious readers

Physics, once known as "natural philosophy," is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, science writer Jennifer Ouellette traces key developments in the field, setting descriptions of the fundamentals of physics in their historical context, as well as against a broad cultural backdrop.

Newton's laws are illustrated via the film Addams Family Values, while Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special relativity. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" serves to illuminate the mysterious nature of neutrinos, and Jeanette Winterson's novel Gut Symmetries provides an elegant metaphorical framework for string theory. An enchanting and edifying read, Black Bodies and Quantum Cats shows that physics is not an arcane field of study but a profoundly human endeavor, and a fundamental part of our everyday world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Alan Chodos, PhD
Preface
1.Renaissance Man
1509: Publication of De Divina Proportione
2. Talkin' ‘Bout a Revolution
August 1542: Publication of De Revolutionibus
3. Lens Crafters
Circa 1590: Invention of the Microscope
4. Good Heavens
January 7, 1610: Galileo discovers moons of Jupiter
5. Gravity's Guru
July 1687: Publication of Newton's Principia
6. Drawing Down the Fire
June 1752: Franklin's kite experiment
7. Trompe l'Oeil
1807: Invention of the camera lucida
8. Rules of Attraction
1820: First evidence of electromagnetism
9. Ingenious Engines
Circa 1840s: Babbage's analytical engine
10. Emperors of the Air
September 24, 1852: First dirigible takes flight
11. Disorderly Conduct
June 1871: Maxwell and his demon
12. Queens of Science
November 1872: Death of Mary Somerville
13. Calling Mister Watson
March 10, 1876: First documented transmission of human speech
14. Thrill Seekers
1884: First U.S. roller coaster opens at Coney Island
15. Current Affairs
May 1888: Tesla and electric power generation
16. Shadow Casters
February 2, 1893: Edison films a sneeze
17. Radio Days
1895: Tesla demonstrates wireless radio
18. Mysterious Rays
November 8, 1895: Roentgen discovers X-rays
19. A Thousand Points of Light
October 1897: Discovery of the electron
20. Quantum Leap
October 1900: Planck introduces quanta
21. It's All Relative
June 1905: Einstein introduces special relativity
22. Rocket Man
March 16, 1926: Launch of first liquid-fuel rocket
23. That Darn Cat
1935: Schroedinger's paradoxical cat
24. Copy That
October 1938: First xerographic copy made
25. Life During Wartime
July 1945: The Trinity test
26. Gimme Shelter
June 2-4, 1947: The Shelter Island conference
27. Tiny Bubbles
1948: Reddi-Wip appears on the market
28. Mimicking Mother Nature
May 13, 1958: Velcro trademark registered
29. Energize Me
December 1958: Invention of the laser
30. Small World
December 29, 1959: Feynman's classic CalTech lecture
31. Contemplating Chaos
Circa January 1961: Lorenz and the butterfly effect
32. Kamikaze Cosmos
July 1963: Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
33. When Particles Collide
April 1994: Discovery of the top quark
34. Check Mate
May 1997: Deep Blue defeats Kasparov
35. Much Ado About Nothing
December 1998: Discovery of accelerating universe
36. The Case of the Missing Neutrinos
February 2001: Solution to solar neutrino problem
37. Icarus Descending
September 2002: Schoen found guilty of scientific misconduct
38. String Section
October 2003: NOVA special on string theory
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