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The author shows how dramatic improvements in experimental technique and new theories have provided extraordinary new insights into how the quantum universe works. He guides us through mind-bending experiments and seemingly paradoxical results so that we can grasp the fundamental riddle of today's quantum mechanics: why a single photon can be seen going in two directions at once.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
In In Search of Schr?dinger's Cat (LJ 7/84), veteran science writer Gribbin considered a famous paradox in quantum mechanics: that subatomic particles are not really particles until someone observes them. His new book explains recent experimental and theoretical findings about the strange nature of the submicroscopic world of the atom. The "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics offered by Niels Bohr and his colleagues has prevailed for almost 70 years, but there is now a plethora of competing interpretations. Gribbin reviews this active and controversial field and cautiously indicates his personal preference for one of the new theoretical models. It is fascinating to see how a problem long regarded as "settled" has acquired new layers of mystery. For larger science collections Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Adams
In a sequel to In Search of Schr?dinger's Cat, Gribbin offers further explorations into the often mind-bending theoretical world of contemporary quantum physics. (May)
Lopate
Gribbon ( In Search of Shr :o dinger's Cats ) presents new evidence about the nature of light that pulls together quantum theory and relativity theory into a coherent explanation of reality. Scattering the indeterminate feline's brood to the opposite ends of the universe (all good homes, of course) he explains signals that travel faster than light and backwards in time, photons capable of being in two places at the same time; and how such arcanery is already being used to make uncrackable codes and could result in a transporter a la Star Trek . For general readers with some general knowledge of science. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
SciTech Book News (03/01/1996)
In a sequel to In Search of Schr”dinger's Cat, Gribbin offers further explorations into the often mind-bending theoretical world of contemporary quantum physics. (May)
Publishers Weekly (04/08/1996)
In In Search of Schr”dinger's Cat (LJ 7/84), veteran science writer Gribbin considered a famous paradox in quantum mechanics: that subatomic particles are not really particles until someone observes them. His new book explains recent experimental and theoretical findings about the strange nature of the submicroscopic world of the atom. The "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics offered by Niels Bohr and his colleagues has prevailed for almost 70 years, but there is now a plethora of competing interpretations. Gribbin reviews this active and controversial field and cautiously indicates his personal preference for one of the new theoretical models. It is fascinating to see how a problem long regarded as "settled" has acquired new layers of mystery. For larger science collections Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Library Journal (05/01/1995)
In a sequel to In Search of Schr¿dinger's Cat, Gribbin offers further explorations into the often mind-bending theoretical world of contemporary quantum physics. (May)
Publishers Weekly (04/08/1996)
In In Search of Schr¿dinger's Cat (LJ 7/84), veteran science writer Gribbin considered a famous paradox in quantum mechanics: that subatomic particles are not really particles until someone observes them. His new book explains recent experimental and theoretical findings about the strange nature of the submicroscopic world of the atom. The "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics offered by Niels Bohr and his colleagues has prevailed for almost 70 years, but there is now a plethora of competing interpretations. Gribbin reviews this active and controversial field and cautiously indicates his personal preference for one of the new theoretical models. It is fascinating to see how a problem long regarded as "settled" has acquired new layers of mystery. For larger science collections Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Library Journal (05/01/1995)
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