logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think - David Lindley
Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think
by: (author)
Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching—but less understood—than the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday experience cannot prepare us for the sub-atomic world, where quantum effects become all-important. Here, particles can look like waves, and vice versa; electrons seem to... show more
Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching—but less understood—than the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday experience cannot prepare us for the sub-atomic world, where quantum effects become all-important. Here, particles can look like waves, and vice versa; electrons seem to lose their identity and instead take on a shifting, unpredictable appearance that depends on how they are being observed; and a single photon may sometimes behave as if it could be in two places at once. In the world of quantum mechanics, uncertainty and ambiguity become not just unavoidable, but essential ingredients of science—a development so disturbing that to Einstein ”it was as if God were playing dice with the universe.” And there is no one better able to explain the quantum revolution as it approaches the century mark than David Lindley. He brings the quantum revolution full circle, showing how the familiar and trustworthy reality of the world around us is actually a consequence of the ineffable uncertainty of the subatomic quantum world—the world we can’t see.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780465067862 (0465067867)
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Other editions (4)
Books by David Lindley
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?