By Louisa Gilder
This book is a great history of the development of entanglement. What is entanglement? I'm still not sure I understand that well enough to explain it.
The book is great at describing how science develops. Unless you are in the scientific community, what you see are just the end results – Einstein says that… Bell says that… The truth is that scientists are always proposing theories, writing them out and then having them shot down. Debate and discussion drag out for years, even decades. Then, every now and then, one theory survives the process.
Einstein didn't like Quantum Physics, entanglement in particular, though he called it "Spooky action at a distance" They way he attacked it though was very admirable. He knew the material as well as any other quantum physicists. He used this knowledge to reveal some deeply strange concepts and thus set the direction for how quantum physics was to be investigated.
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