Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science

In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was ''unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.'' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric ''quantum theory'' — from poets and historians, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How did quantum mechanics enter ...