| Management number | 238792811 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$4.00 | Model Number | 238792811 | ||
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<i>Qubits and Quandaries</i> is the final volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. <p>Between 2020 and 2025, physics proved that the most complex systems in the universe could be mapped, modelled, and engineered. Scientists established that black holes are an unavoidable consequence of gravity, laid the physical foundations for understanding the changing climate, and proved that entangled particles correlate more strongly than any classical story allows. </p><p>The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a half decade where light was sliced into attosecond pulses to photograph electron motion, artificial neural networks began to learn like physical systems, and quantum mechanics was finally built into macroscopic hardware you could hold in your hand. </p><p>In this volume, six prizes become six works of literary fiction: a junior analyst discovering that the confidence in a supermassive black hole's orbit has been dangerously manufactured; a civil engineer exposing a contractor who profits from trapping a city's adaptive traffic network in unstable basins; a detective using a Bell inequality test to catch thieves hiding their synchronized crimes behind a quantum network demonstration; a forensic expert reconstructing an attosecond spark to prove a laser facility fire was deliberate sabotage; an investigator fighting an artificial neural network that completes missing person clues into biased, plausible lies; and a startup engineer racing to patch a handheld quantum sensor that a client is exploiting for covert communication. </p><p>Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the final years of the Nobel physics series not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light.</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Textbooks |
| Publication date | April, 2026 |
| Pages | 138 |
| Subgenre | Physics |
| Series title | The Nobel Physics Stories: A Decade-By-Decade Short Story |
| Number in series | 13 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |
| Language | English |
| Edu focus | Physics |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.00 x 0.30 x 9.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.43 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Science |
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