How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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He includes lots of helpful diagrams and explains what each different kind of experiment can and can't prove, how and why.

If a particle can be in different positions at once, and lose its haecceity (the characteristics that define a thing as a particular thing, also known in philosophical literature by the funny expression "thisness"), then we are really not dealing with tiny billiard balls at all, are we? The study of quantum physics, combined with a conscious re-definition of how we perceive reality, may lead us again to the insight that a conscious intellect is the 'unverse observing itself', and even cross Wittgenstein's barrier that language is the final obstacle to reality. I have started to think about particles as a kind of non-local 'fog' that is spread out across the entire universe, with different densities at different, specific, spacetime locations. I am aware that in my own review, I have done the same, and introduced the metaphors of 'fog' and 'schizophrenic' to capture the behaviour of particles.If they were bor­ing lit­tle holes through the bar­rier, they would lose some en­ergy in the process, and we’d be able to de­tect that. Excelente libro de divulgación científica, que explica lo más sencillo posible algunas de los aspectos más fascinantes e increíbles (literalmente increíbles) de la física cuántica.

Not being a dog person, I thought these sections might start to grate after a while, but they were actually tremendously helpful). Readers who've shied away from popular treatments of physics in the past may find his cheerful discussion a real treat. If you ever wanted to get a glimpse at what it like to be as smart as a rocket scientist, or have any curiosity about particles and waves, give this book a try. As written, it keeps citing page numbers of previously mentioned theorems and experiments: but they refer to a page number in some particular dead-tree-book edition. But the insights of quantum physics tell a story that is simply irreconcilable with this mental picture.I still want to develop an intuitive understanding of these processes, I am not entirely content to leave them consigned to the realm of abstract mathematics. Another thing that is vaguely unsettling is that a particle can be part of a system in which it gives up its individual existence.