Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality Manjit Kuma

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We open up with the discovery of the Quantum whe figuring out the black body radiation question.

103 Bohr begins to realize that durning a quantum leap the electron must instantaneously dissappear from one orbit and reappear at the next. There is no Intermediate state.

117 Bohr meets Einstein.  Not impressed with all this quantum business,  Einstein "abandoned the quantum" in the quest for the theory of everything.

120 "one day the great European war will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans." Otto Von Bismark.
Einstein,  quite the dick to his wife by the way, returns to Germany as war descends on Europe.

I guess im still not ready for this book yet. Lost in the sauce. Sent it back. Willtry again at another time.