Beyond weird
Subtitle: why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different
By: Philip Ball
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780226558387
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Quantum theory; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: No one can say what quantam mechanics means (and this is a book about it); title: Quantum mechanics is not really about the quantum; title: Quantum objects are neither wave nor particle (but sometimes they might as well be); title: Quantum particles aren't in two states at once (but sometimes they might as well be); title: What "happens" depends on what we find out about it; title: There are many ways of interpreting quantum theory (and none of them quite make sense); title: Whatever the question, the answer is "yes" (unless it's "no"); title: Not everything is knowable at once; title: The properties of quantum objects don't have to be contained within the objects; title: There is no "spooky action at a distance"; title: The everyday world is what quantum becomes at human scales; title: Everything you experience is a (partial) copy of what causes it; title: Schrödinger's cat has had kittens; title: Quantum mechanics can be harnessed for technology; title: Quantum computers don't necessarily perform "many calculations at once"; title: There is no other "quantum" you; title: Things could be even more "quantum" than they are (so why aren't they)?; title: The fundamental laws of quantum mechanics might be simpler than we imagine; title: Can we ever get to the bottom of it?