In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things didn't turn out that way. But the world we do have is actually more fantastic than the most outlandish predictions of science fiction from the mid-20th century. The internet, mobile phones and MRI machines have changed the world in unimaginable ways.
In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios explains the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and nuclear energy through speculative science fiction, space adventures, graphic novels and films that have led to technological innovations - breakthroughs that will make possible a future beyond our wildest imaginings.
- ISBN10 0715638181
- ISBN13 9780715638187
- Publish Date 28 October 2010
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 27 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Prelude
- Imprint Duckworth
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English