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One day in 1900, German physicist Max Planck told his son that he had made a breakthrough as important as Isaac Newton's discovery of the workings of the universe. Planck had reached the surprising conclusion that light behaves as if it is packaged in discrete amounts, or quanta, a seemingly simple observation that would lead to a powerful new field of physics called quantum mechanics.

In the following decades, a series of great physicists built on Planck's discovery, developing quantum mechanics into the most successful physical theory ever devised—the general framework that underlies our understanding of nature at its most fundamental level.

Lectures

1.	The Quantum Enigma
2.	The View from 1900
3.	Two Revolutionaries—Planck and Einstein
4.	Particles of Light, Waves of Matter
5.	Standing Waves and Stable Atoms
6.	Uncertainty
7.	Complementarity and the Great Debate
8.	Paradoxes of Interference
9.	States, Amplitudes, and Probabilities
10.	Particles That Spin
11.	Quantum Twins
12.	The Gregarious Particles
13.	Antisymmetric and Antisocial
14.	The Most Important Minus Sign in the World
15.	Entanglement
16.	Bell and Beyond
17.	All the Myriad Ways
18.	Much Ado about Nothing
19.	Quantum Cloning
20.	Quantum Cryptography
21.	Bits, Qubits, and Ebits
22.	Quantum Computers
23.	Many Worlds or One?
24.	The Great Smoky Dragon