Entangelment: Greatest Mystery In Physics, The

Description:
Could fiction become reality? Will a time come when we are able to teleport across space or communicate between universes? The lines between science and science fiction are becoming increasingly blurred. When Captain Kirk of Star Trek calls, 'Beam me up Scotty' and when the spies in Philip Pulman's 'The Amber Spyglass' communicate between universes, both are using the phenomenon known as entanglement. Now quantum mechanics promises that some of our wildest dreams may be realized. Recent experiments show not only that such bizarre effects might be possible but that they could become reality, perhaps even in our lifetimes.

Table of Contents:
A mysterious force of harmony; before the beginning; Thomas Young's experiment; Planck's constant; the Copenhagen School; De Broglie's pilot waves; Schrodinger and his equation; Heisenberg's microscope; Wheeler's cat; the Hungarian mathematician; enter Einstein; Bohm and Aharanov; John Bell's theorem; the dream of Clauser, Horne and Shimony; Alain Aspect; laser guns; triple entanglement; the ten-kilometer experiment; teleportation - 'Beam me up, Scotty'; quantum magic - what does it all mean?