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Beyond Weird - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Paperback)
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Beyond Weird - Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Paperback)
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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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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Firstpublished: |
2018 |
Authors: |
Philip Ball
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Dimensions: |
213 x 137 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-75510-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-226-75510-X |
Barcode: |
9780226755106 |
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