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Beyond weird : why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different / Philip Ball.

LIBRA QC174.123 .B36 2018
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Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Popular works.
Physical Description:
377 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Summary:
An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means and what it doesn't. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience.
Contents:
  • No one can say what quantam mechanics means (and this is a book about it)
  • Quantum mechanics is not really about the quantum
  • Quantum objects are neither wave nor particle (but sometimes they might as well be)
  • Quantum particles aren't in two states at once (but sometimes they might as well be)
  • What "happens" depends on what we find out about it
  • There are many ways of interpreting quantum theory (and none of them quite make sense)
  • Whatever the question, the answer is "yes" (unless it's "no")
  • Not everything is knowable at once
  • The properties of quantum objects don't have to be contained within the objects
  • There is no "spooky action at a distance"
  • The everyday world is what quantum becomes at human scales
  • Everything you experience is a (partial) copy of what causes it
  • Schrödinger's cat has had kittens
  • Quantum mechanics can be harnessed for technology
  • Quantum computers don't necessarily perform "many calculations at once"
  • There is no other "quantum" you
  • Things could be even more "quantum" than they are (so why aren't they)?
  • The fundamental laws of quantum mechanics might be simpler than we imagine
  • Can we ever get to the bottom of it?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780226558387
  • 022655838X
OCLC:
1027740114
Publisher Number:
99978404692

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