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Beyond Weird - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Hardcover)
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Beyond Weird - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Hardcover)
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"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.
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