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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Somewhere above the Alps, a beam of light leaves a satellite named after a two thousand year old philosopher. A thousand kilometers away, a detector blinks. The two events are connected, instantly, by nothing anyone can see, hear, or touch. This actually happened. It is still happening.Whispers Between Particles is the story of the strangest true fact in modern science, told the way a great story should be told: through people, not equations. You will meet Einstein, furious that the universe might be this odd, spending his final decades trying to prove it wrong. You will meet the quiet Irish physicist who, in 1964, wrote a few lines of mathematics that would end the argument decades later, in a way nobody expected. You will meet the scientists who cooled diamonds to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, who beamed photons into orbit, who built machines so precise that a blink of your eye lasts ten million times longer than their entire measurement.None of it requires a physics background. Lior Bennathorne uses the objects already sitting in your life: two coins in separate pockets, twins who seem to finish each other's thoughts, a pair of gloves mailed to opposite sides of the world. Each metaphor is honest about where it breaks down, because a metaphor that pretends to be perfect is a metaphor that is lying to you. What is left, after the honesty, is something better than a clean explanation. It is the real shape of one of the great discoveries of the twentieth century, delivered in plain language that never once talks down to you.This is narrative science writing built for readers who do not usually read science books. Every chapter stands on its own, sized for a single sitting, and every chapter quietly sets up the next, so that a curious afternoon has a way of turning into a finished book. Real people. Real experiments. Real consequences, including the encryption now protecting financial and government communication, the quantum computers already being built by the world's largest technology companies, and the atomic clocks keeping the exact time your phone quietly trusts.The disagreement that opens this book took place at a hotel in Brussels in 1927, between two of the greatest minds of the century. It was not resolved by either man. It was resolved decades later, in laboratories, with real photons and real data, and the answer surprised almost everyone who had a stake in it. That answer earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, and it is waiting for you in these pages, explained the way it should have been explained from the beginning: like a story, with real stakes, real characters, and an ending that will change how you see the space between any two things that were ever, even briefly, connected.Read the first chapter and you will understand why physicists still argue about what it means. Read the last chapter and you will understand why that argument matters to you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Somewhere above the Alps, a beam of light leaves a satellite named after a two thousand year old philosopher. A thousand kilometers away, a detector blinks. The two events are connected, instantly, by nothing anyone can see, hear, or touch. This actually happened. It is still happening.Whispers Between Particles is the story of the strangest true fact in modern science, told the way a great story should be told: through people, not equations. You will meet Einstein, furious that the universe might be this odd, spending his final decades trying to prove it wrong. You will meet the quiet Irish physicist who, in 1964, wrote a few lines of mathematics that would end the argument decades later, in a way nobody expected. You will meet the scientists who cooled diamonds to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, who beamed photons into orbit, who built machines so precise that a blink of your eye lasts ten million times longer than their entire measurement.None of it requires a physics background. Lior Bennathorne uses the objects already sitting in your life: two coins in separate pockets, twins who seem to finish each other's thoughts, a pair of gloves mailed to opposite sides of the world. Each metaphor is honest about where it breaks down, because a metaphor that pretends to be perfect is a metaphor that is lying to you. What is left, after the honesty, is something better than a clean explanation. It is the real shape of one of the great discoveries of the twentieth century, delivered in plain language that never once talks down to you.This is narrative science writing built for readers who do not usually read science books. Every chapter stands on its own, sized for a single sitting, and every chapter quietly sets up the next, so that a curious afternoon has a way of turning into a finished book. Real people. Real experiments. Real consequences, including the encryption now protecting financial and government communication, the quantum computers already being built by the world's largest technology companies, and the atomic clocks keeping the exact time your phone quietly trusts.The disagreement that opens this book took place at a hotel in Brussels in 1927, between two of the greatest minds of the century. It was not resolved by either man. It was resolved decades later, in laboratories, with real photons and real data, and the answer surprised almost everyone who had a stake in it. That answer earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, and it is waiting for you in these pages, explained the way it should have been explained from the beginning: like a story, with real stakes, real characters, and an ending that will change how you see the space between any two things that were ever, even briefly, connected.Read the first chapter and you will understand why physicists still argue about what it means. Read the last chapter and you will understand why that argument matters to you.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Somewhere above the Alps, a beam of light leaves a satellite named after a two thousand year old philosopher. A thousand kilometers away, a detector blinks. The two events are connected, instantly, by nothing anyone can see, hear, or touch. This actually happened. It is still happening.Whispers Between Particles is the story of the strangest true fact in modern science, told the way a great story should be told: through people, not equations. You will meet Einstein, furious that the universe might be this odd, spending his final decades trying to prove it wrong. You will meet the quiet Irish physicist who, in 1964, wrote a few lines of mathematics that would end the argument decades later, in a way nobody expected. You will meet the scientists who cooled diamonds to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, who beamed photons into orbit, who built machines so precise that a blink of your eye lasts ten million times longer than their entire measurement.None of it requires a physics background. Lior Bennathorne uses the objects already sitting in your life: two coins in separate pockets, twins who seem to finish each other's thoughts, a pair of gloves mailed to opposite sides of the world. Each metaphor is honest about where it breaks down, because a metaphor that pretends to be perfect is a metaphor that is lying to you. What is left, after the honesty, is something better than a clean explanation. It is the real shape of one of the great discoveries of the twentieth century, delivered in plain language that never once talks down to you.This is narrative science writing built for readers who do not usually read science books. Every chapter stands on its own, sized for a single sitting, and every chapter quietly sets up the next, so that a curious afternoon has a way of turning into a finished book. Real people. Real experiments. Real consequences, including the encryption now protecting financial and government communication, the quantum computers already being built by the world's largest technology companies, and the atomic clocks keeping the exact time your phone quietly trusts.The disagreement that opens this book took place at a hotel in Brussels in 1927, between two of the greatest minds of the century. It was not resolved by either man. It was resolved decades later, in laboratories, with real photons and real data, and the answer surprised almost everyone who had a stake in it. That answer earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022, and it is waiting for you in these pages, explained the way it should have been explained from the beginning: like a story, with real stakes, real characters, and an ending that will change how you see the space between any two things that were ever, even briefly, connected.Read the first chapter and you will understand why physicists still argue about what it means. Read the last chapter and you will understand why that argument matters to you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Whispers Between Particles | A Narrative of Quantum Entanglement Told Through Everyday Metaphors | Lior Bennathorne | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Expedition Publishers | EAN 9798235765795 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…