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Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement : When Quantum Physics was Reborn.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Gilder's 'Entanglement' is a fairly comprehensive history of quantum mechanics, with a focus on the strange phenomenon of entanglement and many of the questions.

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics.

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder has produced a highly entertaining story of what led up to these events and of what followed them.

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder presents us with quantum physics not as a textbook abstraction, but as a vigorous debate among brilliant men and women.

It covers the history of quantum theory from about , and focussing on the discovery of the problems and potential of quantum entanglement.

xvi + 443 pages; illustrated with drawing by the author, some photographs; includes glossary, notes, bibliography, and index.

The title of Louisa Gilder's book is evidently meant to be literary, alluding perhaps to Auden's famous 1947 poem "The Age of Anxiety", but also to the "Age of Enlightenment", both of which lend some redolence to her subject, a quest for meaning and understanding in quantum mechanics.

Also, "entanglement" can refer to several things, not least of which might refer to how any number of scientist's live have been sucked into the maelstrom of quantum mechanical hermeneutics.

It also refers to a specific concept of quantum mechanics that is straightforward enough but takes some time to present—in fact, it is the subject of the book.

It refers to the fact that, in