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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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Here you will find the most fundamental concepts related to quantum physics explained: Uncertainty principle, particle-wave duality, many worlds theory and quantum entanglement. If understood well, it may re-define our relationship with language itself, and remind us that words are simply shortcuts that we use to define bundles of properties.

I feel that quantum physics, just as relativity theory, cannot be understood at a satisfactory intellectual level by reference to concepts we know. Each chapter starts with a conversation between the author and his dog Emmy about a particular topic. 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. 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. Si desean una pequeña introducción acerca de los misterios del universo y como los físicos están acercándose a entenderlos y resolverlos, este libro es un excelente apoyo, no deja de ser una obra de divulgación, pero es ameno, divertido, y a ratos incluso enternecedor.What happens to the ultra-fundamental human concept of countability when we deal with entangled states? There is no room for actual proof or big equations in this book, but I don't think that that would have been fitting in this context. Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner.

But the physical description of a 'quantum field' turns out to be even more elusive if we insist that we cannot use a purely mathematical description to capture it. Taking Emmy's anarchic behaviour as a starting point, Orzel explains the key theories of quantum physics. A classical field is a near-physical object in which every point has a uniquely measurable identity.Still, there is a link to the book, and you will find it in the middle of my blurb under the heading "A message to Chad". The thing I really liked about this book is that Orzel actually goes into detail about how the experiments were designed that proved various aspects of quantum theory.

The amplitudes 'a(t)' of the states '|Stars>' are complex numbers normalised so that the sum of their squared moduli is unity (equals one). They aren't correct in my e-book edition, and they probably wouldn't have been correct in every DTB edition—or if they are (which means they must have been corrected for every other edition) why aren't they corrected for the e-book? Physics is sometimes defined as the mathematical explanation of the physical world, so how can you do physics without math? Bueno, como libro de divulgación científica, se trata de una obra muy entretenida, y sobre todo, sencilla de entender para el más ignorante en el tema. I am in a quagmire, I am thrashing around, straining to grasp the branch of a tree in an attempt to steady myself, to lift myself onto solid ground.I am expressing thoughts that were triggered through my reading of his book, and I find these thoughts fascinating. It uses just enough math to get the ideas across and frames much of the interpretation in metaphors based on the dog’s desire to catch little furry animals. Accessible to the point that I actually understood big chunks with varying degrees of uncertainty (that was a quantum joke, right there). Dogs can’t count, let alone calculate square roots so the author uses concrete examples using bunnies, squirrels and dog treats to illustrate concepts like particle-wave duality and quantum tunneling.

We'll see how they compare - and whether repetition and a different way of presenting the weirdness continue to nudge me along a wee bit in my attempts to comprehend the incomprehensible. On quantum teleportation: “You could use it to make a quan­tum ver­sion of the In­ter­net, if you had a cou­ple of quan­tum com­put­ers that you needed to con­nect to­gether. The book alternates between short conversations with Orzel’s dog, an unusually intelligent animal who wants to use quantum mechanics to catch squirrels and rabbits, and Orzel’s straightforward presentation of the science behind the basic concepts. When adopted from the shelter by physics professor Chad Orzel, she becomes immediately fascinated by his work.Orzel’s explanations, while admirably complete, also tend towards a level of technical complexity that belies the book’s pop science label. So it seems that the new and alien world of quantum physics may provide more than a deeper understanding of nature. From 1999-2001, Chad was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Physics Department at Yale University, studying Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) in the group of Mark Kasevich.

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