000 00921cam a2200205 i 4500
008 221118s2022 mdua b 001 0 eng
020 _a9781421443720
041 _aeng
080 _a530.145
_bHAL
100 1 _a Halpern, Nicole Yunger,
245 1 0 _aQuantum steampunk
_bthe physics of yesterday's tomorrow
260 _aBaltimore
_bJohns Hopkins University Press
_c2022
300 _a294 p
_billustrations ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"The science-fiction genre known as steampunk juxtaposes futuristic technologies with Victorian settings. This fantasy is becoming reality at the intersection of two scientific fields-twenty-first-century quantum physics and nineteenth-century thermodynamics, or the study of energy-in a discipline known as quantum steampunk"--
650 0 _aQuantum theory
650 0 _aThermodynamics.
690 _aPhysics
942 _cBK
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999 _c59214
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