[英] 吉姆·巴戈特（Jim Baggott）

生於1957年，英國科學史作傢。牛津大學化學物理學博士，牛津大學和斯坦福大學博士後，英國雷丁大學化學講師。葛蘭素史剋科學作傢奬和英國皇傢化學學會授予的馬洛奬章得主。

巴戈特從事過多年的學術研究工作，二十多年來一直專注於科學、哲學和曆史類主題寫作。著有《量子空間：通往萬物理論的新途徑》《希格斯：上帝粒子的提齣與發現》《完美的對稱：富勒烯的意外發現》《原子：物理學界的第一次大戰和原子彈秘史，1939―1949》等書籍，並在《新科學人》《自然》等頂尖科學刊物上發錶文章。

2013年，巴戈特在摩根·弗裏曼主持的“穿越蟲洞”科學係列節目中首次亮相，之後多次參與英國和美國科學廣播節目的錄製，緻力於科學普及。

The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality, whilst at the same time denying us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend it. Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics. This theory was discovered and refined in the first thirty years of the twentieth century and went on to become quite simply the most successful theory of physics ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we have learned to take for granted. But its success has come at a price, for it has at the same time completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at the level of its most fundamental constituents. Rejecting the fundamental elements of uncertainty and chance implied by quantum theory, Albert Einstein once famously declared that 'God does not play dice'. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The charismatic American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it. This is quantum theory, and this book tells its story. Jim Baggott presents a celebration of this wonderful yet wholly disconcerting theory, with a history told in forty episodes -- significant moments of truth or turning points in the theory's development. From its birth in the porcelain furnaces used to study black body radiation in 1900, to the promise of stimulating new quantum phenomena to be revealed by CERN's Large Hadron Collider over a hundred years later, this is the extraordinary story of the quantum world.