Title: Beyond Weird Pdf
"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.
More up to date (in 2019) than most books There are two kinds of books on quantum physics: Those for physicists, full of equations, and those for the rest of us. This is one of the latter kind.If you know anything at all about quantum physics, you know two things: (1) the equations describe the world correctly, every time, and (2) they don't (seem to) make any sense. Therefore, books for "the rest of us" all describe some of the weird things quantum physics says about the world, and try to make some kind of sense of it.I've read quite a few such books. This one is quite good, and talks about the most recent attempts to understand what it all "means." Personally, I favor the idea that the basic "stuff" of the universe is information, but hey, I'm a computer scientist, not a physicist. YMMV.takes us to new and more enlightened understanding As a lay person who has been a student of all things Quantum for over 20 years and 30 books, this is a highly recommended read. Mr. Ball has masterfully put into verbal terms concepts that are even nebulous in formal math terms. He has taken a fresh approach at quantum mysteries with illuminating and descriptive prose. He also introduces terms and correlations that I have seen no where else. This is a 21st century description filled with 21st century enlightenment for the 21st century curious. May require some degree of prior basic understanding.Read it for it self or as a companion to other works on Quantum Physics An excellent companion to Sabine Hossenfelder's Lost in Math. It fills in, for the non-physics professional, some the background information and perspective alluded to In Dr Hossenenfelder's work. It stands on its own and makes clear the difficulties in the understanding of quantum physics for the reader with a life long practice in classical mechanics.
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