George Musser
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality -- the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. It appears to be almost magical. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't...