I will say that it is not an argument, or at least it doesn’t appear to be one to me. It’s not long, challenging, or expensive. I’m not going to summarize the book I feel you should read it yourself. The answers he came back with led directly to Einstein’s theory of special relativity. The most convincing theories concerning how objects behaved when heated in the Newtonian physics predicted that it would be blue, not red. A physicist named Max Planck back in 1900 tried to figure out why your stove glows red when it gets really hot. Unlike your physics classes, which featured a lot of sleeping on your book, this one starts on your stove. He accomplished both goals with this reader. This book has, as far as I can tell, two goals: to pique your interest in quantum physics and its sub-fields, and to convince you that certain beliefs that you’re likely to have about the world are not supported by experiments performed in it. Let’s get this out of the way, right off.
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