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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. It was the first popular book about quantum physics I've read and I think I was lucky to start with it. 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.
Needless to say, talking cats appearing out of nowhere and speaking in riddles was not usual in my daily routine. An in depth discussion of the birth of quantum physics, where it is now and what it means for the future. As Richard Feynman said, “One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. Gribbin uses his excellent understanding of the essence of quantum mechanics to produce a book that is equal parts fascinating and educational. La historia y las discusiones que aborda siguen siendo tan actuales como lo fueron en el momento en el que fue escrito.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". Gribbin's book has been cited as an example of how to revive an interest in the study of mathematics. On the one hand this allows us to explore some of the most interesting and deep ideas in quantum mechanics without being weighed down by the baggage of the mathematics required to get us there. He takes us step-by-step into an ever more bizarre and fascinating place—requiring only that we approach it with an open mind. Ama illa bir şeyler anlayayım, hiç olmazsa neden anlaşılamayacağını anlayayım, derseniz bu kitap hiç fena bir başlangıç noktası değil.
In 1974, Gribbin published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrant on one side of the Sun on March 10, 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, possibly wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs. 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.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. Without it, we'd have no nuclear power or nuclear bombs, no lasers, no TV, no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering—at all.
I think this book is meant for laypeople, you don't need to understand any equations, but even for an expert, I think having the history laid out like this, and told in such a personable voice, must be interesting and helpful. Although nearer the end there’s a little sprinkle of cosmology, which was greatly appreciated as well. 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. That part dealt with actual state of quantum theory, and needs considerable conceptual clarity, which is not so easy to muster at my stage. The only reasonable explanation for this, says Deutsch, is that the superposition actually represents 256 different computers operating in 256 different parallel universes…”the fact that quantum computing works proves that many worlds exist.It feels surreal to find the natural phenomenon facilitating such an interpretation of the social reality.
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. He investigates the atom, radiation, time travel, the birth of the universe, super conductors and life itself. 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 third part probes some of the deeper mysteries, possibilities and paradoxes of quantum mechanics.