He also uses thought experiments to help the reader understand the crucial concepts and interpretations of quantum physics, including of course Schrödinger's cat. The only negative is that often I'd find myself struggling to comprehend certain analogies as the audiobook format is constrained to text only, as opposed to the paperback version of this book that has quite a few illustrations that help quite a lot. He takes us step-by-step into an ever more bizarre and fascinating place—requiring only that we approach it with an open mind.

Hoy, con los años, la manera como las ideas de la teoría cuántica emergieron en el seno de una comunidad de jóvenes creativos y de "viejos" escépticos están entre las cosas que mas me interesan. The topical range of his prolific writings includes quantum physics, biographies of famous scientists, human evolution, the origins of the universe, climate change and global warming. scarcely any of them will realise that every item on that list has its roots in quantum mechanics, a branch of science that they may never have heard of and almost certainly do not understand. From a relatively simple, easy to follow, and well-suited for the layman explanation of the structure of the atom to his absurdly obtuse description of the most important experiment to confirm the predictions of quantum mechanics, he leaves the reader fighting to piece together his point.

The complex concepts are explained effectively and with care towards not diluting the essential core physical principles down to nothing in the name of simplification and accessibility. one of the anecdotes told and retold about Niels Bohr is that when someone came to him with a wild idea purporting to resolve one of the puzzles of quantum theory in the 1920’s he replied, “Your theory is crazy. However, I enjoyed this immensely and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a low to no math introduction to quantum mechanics. The book is not mathematical in nature but combines the intriguing and rich history of the formulation of quantum mechanics along with some of its most stunning scientific insights. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

Without pulling any mathematical punches the author neatly explains lasers, masers, semiconductors, quantum computers, entanglement, and things of not-so-distant or far away future. For me now it has become apparent that time travel, teleportation, antimatter and multiple realities are well established phenomena of physics, not of unhealthy imagination. This work lays bare the way scientists work together, solve problems, follow threads, and the implications it has for the world at large is fascinating. The first two parts of the book explore the discussions, and scientific developments as quantum theories began to emerge from classical Newtonian approaches.It has been described as among the best of the first wave of physics popularisations preceding Stephen Hawking's multi-million-selling A Brief History of Time.

He then explains the Planck's black body radiation and the famous two-slit experiment whose observations threw the entire scientific community into a state of utter ambiguity and disarray about the nature of electrons.Ama illa bir şeyler anlayayım, hiç olmazsa neden anlaşılamayacağını anlayayım, derseniz bu kitap hiç fena bir başlangıç noktası değil. Being somewhat new to these concepts, I'm not sure if I'm meshing too well with the opinions on parallel universes that Gribbin states at the end, and the illustrations are badly placed, only moderately insightful, and actually contradict the text in places. John Gribbin takes us step by step into an even more bizarre and fascinating place, requiring only that we approach it with an open mind. According to the first of them, Copenhagen interpretations, Chance plays the chancellor or Chairman. I literally rushed through the first two-third of the book, all along feeling a genuine regret fornthe fact that had I studied this book before embarking on my quest to become a Chemistry graduate, I could have appreciated the things a lot more, in the process picking up much more than a degree.

However, it also means that the reader is sometimes left feeling short-changed, as we are provided with a key insight or result from the theory without having the maths to build up to this result and see how it was derived. Well, it was all these scientists talking about wave/ particle duality - how subatomic particles behaved both like a wave and a particle, and changed into one or the other only upon observation. Si bien mucha agua ha pasado por el río de la física contemporánea desde el tiempo en el que el texto fue escrito (finales de los 80) los temas y las discusiones tienen una actualidad pasmosa que demuestra lo poco que realmente hemos avanzado en la comprensión de la teoría cuántica.maybe after a certain number of reads it will stick - because i am not naturally good at this sort of subject. I did only vaguely - but I wanted to save myself from getting scratched, which I seemed to be in imminent danger of. This implies that the cat or anything in the box is a wave function accompanied by myriad ghost realities that will collapse into a single reality (dead or alive cat) when you decide to see it. Gribbin repudiated The Jupiter Effect in the July 17, 1980, issue of New Scientist magazine in which he stated that he had been "too clever by half".