Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-938422-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
obey certain rules. In the case of the quantum, these rules are called "quantum physics." This is a book about quanta and their unexpected, some would say peculiar, behavior—tales, if you will, of the quantum.
The quantum has developed the reputation of being capricious, bewildering, even impossible to understand. The peculiar habits of quanta are certainly not what we would have expected to find at the foundation of physical reality, but these habits are not necessarily bewildering and not at all impossible or paradoxical. This book explains those habits—the quantum rules—in everyday language, without mathematics or unnecessary technicalities. While most popular books about quantum physics follow
the topic's scientific history from 1900 to today, this book follows the phenomena: wave-particle duality, fundamental randomness, quantum states, superpositions (being in two places at once), entanglement, non-locality, Schrodinger's cat, and quantum jumps, and presents the history and the
scientists only to the extent that they illuminate the phenomena.