A brief history of Quantum

The history of the quantum revolution is replete with famous names like Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and others who have forever changed the way we think about the world.

The smug self-satisfaction of many physicists at the beginning the twentieth century that “there is nothing to be discovered in physics now; all that remains is more and more precise measurement” (attributed to Lord Kelvin, 1900), quickly gave way to a staggering set of advances which swept away comfortable ideas and replaced them with theories that, while proving to be extremely useful, strained to breaking point common sense ideas of what reality should look like.