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Where Does The Weirdness Go? - Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think (Paperback, Revised)
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Where Does The Weirdness Go? - Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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