Beyond weird why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different
| Main Author: | Ball, Philip, 1962- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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Table of 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?