One Hundred Years of Unsaid: Quantum Mechanics for Everyone in 25 Essays
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One Hundred Years of Unsaid: Quantum Mechanics for Everyone in 25 Essays
14.99 €
Quantum mechanics is the most accurate way known to mankind to describe the world at the fundamental depth that defines its structure but is inaccessible to direct observation. It is only because of quantum nature that atoms, humans, stars and almost everything else manages to exist. The quantum effects that are already involved in technology are as close as possible to our ideas of miracles. But by virtue of its very structure, quantum mechanics leaves ambiguities about the behavior of quantum objects and properties of reality.
At the dawn of the second quantum century, Alexei Semikhatov, author of the bestselling Everything That Moves, offers a coherent account of the current state of quantum mechanics. What are the fundamental features of the quantum world and at what cost can they be reconciled with intuition? By what rules do quantum systems evolve in time and how do probabilities intervene in this development? How do different interpretations of quantum mechanics lead us to deeply philosophical conclusions about the possible structure of reality, from parallel universes to perceptual discontinuities? And how does our familiar reality emerge from a quantum reality that is alien to it? What does a quantum computer do after all, what and how is quantum entanglement involved, and why do quantum objects have to exist without some properties? It turns out that quantum mechanics can be seriously talked about in an understandable way, and discussing its complexities only makes the conversation more interesting.
At the dawn of the second quantum century, Alexei Semikhatov, author of the bestselling Everything That Moves, offers a coherent account of the current state of quantum mechanics. What are the fundamental features of the quantum world and at what cost can they be reconciled with intuition? By what rules do quantum systems evolve in time and how do probabilities intervene in this development? How do different interpretations of quantum mechanics lead us to deeply philosophical conclusions about the possible structure of reality, from parallel universes to perceptual discontinuities? And how does our familiar reality emerge from a quantum reality that is alien to it? What does a quantum computer do after all, what and how is quantum entanglement involved, and why do quantum objects have to exist without some properties? It turns out that quantum mechanics can be seriously talked about in an understandable way, and discussing its complexities only makes the conversation more interesting.
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