The Second Quantum Revolution

<p></p><p>Prologue: The white rabbit.-&nbsp;Part 1: Quantum 2.0 – The second technological revolution arising from the quantum world:&nbsp; Mighty power – How a theory of the microcosm changed our world.-There‘s plenty of room at the bottom – A new generation of quantum technologies.-&nbsp;Technology on the smallest scales – The possibilities of nanotechnology.-&nbsp;&nbsp;Incredibly fast&nbsp;– From digital to the quantum computer.-&nbsp;Part 2: Quantum Worlds – The bizarre in the very small:&nbsp;Contradictory atoms – Philosophical problems with the smallest building blocks of nature.-&nbsp;Natura facit saltus – On quantum jumps and particles being made out of nothing.-&nbsp;Tertium datur – Wave and particles at the same time.-&nbsp;As well as neither/-nor – Superposition: how things can be here and there at&nbsp; the same time.-&nbsp;Loss of identity – The New Reality Concept of Quantum Physics and its Consequences.- Part 3: From Quantum Field Theories to a "Theory of Everything" – All matter dissolves:&nbsp;&nbsp;Negative energies and the electron spin – Combining the theory of relativity to produce a new quantum&nbsp;theory.- Quantum field theories – All matter dissolves.-&nbsp;Infinity minus infinity gives something finite – How physicists learnt to deal with infinitely large values in the infinitely small.-&nbsp;More and more particles – From the particle zoo to the standard model of elementary particle&nbsp;physics.- Einstein does not fit – The fundamental problem in physics today.- Part 4: Cutting across philosophical, aesthetic, and spiritual, frames of thought:&nbsp;The Path towards Substancelessness – Breaking with 2,600 years of philosophical thought.-&nbsp;A New Understanding of Truth – How quantum physics made absolute reality disappear, and with it absolute truth.-&nbsp;&nbsp;The eternal interplay – Surprising overlaps between quantum physics and Buddhism.-&nbsp;&nbsp;Symmetries – Beauty in the House of Physics.- Quantum Consciousness and the Tao of Physics - On quantum holism, quantum healing, and other quantum nonsense.-&nbsp;&nbsp;Quantum physics and faith– Explaining the inexplicable.-&nbsp;Part 5: Entanglement – getting to the crux of the matter:&nbsp;The destinies of cats – The quantum physical measurement problem.-&nbsp;Wigner´s Friend – Quantum physics and consciousness.-&nbsp;&nbsp;EPR and Hidden Variables – The debate about spooky action at a distance.- The experimental resolution of the Bohr- Einstein debate – How entangled particles made their way from theory into practice.- The Age of Entanglement – From spooks to a new quantum revolution.-&nbsp;&nbsp;Schrödinger‘s cat is alive – The path back to classical physics.- Part 6: The future – Where are we going?:&nbsp;&nbsp;Quantum Revolution 2.0&nbsp;– When nanobots and quantum computers become part of our&nbsp;everyday lives.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><br><p></p>