Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
Philip Ball
"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don't seem obvious or right at all--or even possible. 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. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge--about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called "weird," it's us.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Philip BallPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 10/18/2018ISBN: 9780226558387Pages: 384Weight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30dReview Citations: Foreword 08/26/2018Choice 04/01/2019
Book Title
Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
ISBN
9780226558387
"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don't seem obvious or right at all--or even possible. 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. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge--about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called "weird," it's us.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/18/2018
ISBN: 9780226558387
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Foreword 08/26/2018
Choice 04/01/2019
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/18/2018
ISBN: 9780226558387
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Foreword 08/26/2018
Choice 04/01/2019
"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don't seem obvious or right at all--or even possible. 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. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge--about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called "weird," it's us.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/18/2018
ISBN: 9780226558387
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Foreword 08/26/2018
Choice 04/01/2019
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/18/2018
ISBN: 9780226558387
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Foreword 08/26/2018
Choice 04/01/2019