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Quantum mechanics
The branch of physics that describes how atoms and elementary particles behave.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
Explained in
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
The theory of atoms and particles, built in the 1920s. At small scales, events in it follow probabilities rather than exact predictions.
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen Hawking
The theory that describes the world of the very small: atoms and particles. In it, many events can only be predicted with a certain probability.