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BLACK BODIES AND QUANTUM CATS
Praise for
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
“To Jennifer Ouellette, physics is more human and intriguing and less
arcane than people think, as she proves with her smart and varied
collection of stories from the farther reaches of physics, written with
a light touch.”
sidney perkowitz,
Candler Professor of Physics, Emory University,
and author of
Empire of Light
“I was so hooked by the end of the first chapter that I read it straight
through.
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
is a captivating look at
how physicists think about the world. Even non-scientists may
find themselves starting to think that way.”
robert l. park,
Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
BLACK BODIES AND
QUANTUM CATS
TALES OF PURE GENIUS AND MAD SCIENCE
Jennifer Ouellette
BLACK BODIES AND QUANTUM CATS
A Oneworld Book
First published in the USA by Penguin Books 2005
First published in Great Britain by Oneworld Publications 2006
Copyright © Jennifer Ouellette, 2006
Foreword copyright © Alan Chodos, 2006
All rights reserved
Copyright under Berne Convention
A CIP record for this title is available
from the British Library
ISBN-13: 978–1–85168–499–1
ISBN-10: 1–85168–499–9
Typeset by Jayvee, Trivandrum, India
Cover design by Two Associates
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd., St Ives plc
Oneworld Publications
185 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 7AR
England
www.oneworld-publications.com
Portions of this book were published as “Pollock’s Fractals”
(Discover, issue of November 2001), “Teaching Old Masters New Tricks”
(Discover, December 2001), and “Bubble, Bubble: The Physics of Foam”
(Discover, June 2002).
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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS:
p. 11 Nicolaus Copernicus Museum, Frombork; p. 19 Illustration by David Wood;
p. 24 The British Library; p. 31 Illustration by Patrick Moore; p. 41 LIGO Laboratory; p. 48
The Bakken Library and Museum; p. 53 Adventures in Cybersound/Russell Naughton;
p. 62 The Bakken Library and Museum; p. 75 Daniel Bernoulli,
Hydrodynamica
(1738);
p. 96 Foyle Special Collections Library, King’s College, London; p. 99 Library of
Congress; p. 115 Tesla Memorial Society of New York; p. 119 Adventures in
Cybersound/Russell Naughton; p. 124 Museum of American Heritage; p. 131 Barry
Truax,
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology;
p. 150 By permission of the Warden and
Fellows, New College, Oxford; p. 151 Illustration by John Blamire, Brooklyn College/
CUNY; pp. 161–2 Illustrations by Paul Dlugokencky; p. 185 Xerox Corporation;
p. 200 Stanford University; p. 204 NASA/Johnson Space Center; p. 211 Museum of
Science, Boston; p. 218 Laser Center, Hanover, Germany; p. 227 (top) CNF, Cornell
University, (bottom) CCMR/CNF, Cornell University; p. 241 Photograph by C. D.
Anderson, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives; p. 255 The Library Company of
Philadelphia; p. 284 Illustration by Paul Dlugokencky.

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