The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking now introduces the lay-reader to the fascinating world of quantum physics. Quantum physicsor quantum mechanics as it is also calledcompletely shattered Newtonian laws and challenged scientists to think differently about matter and subatomic particles. This collection gathers the most important papers on quantum physics, including the scholarship of Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Richard Feynman.