Totally Random (eBook)

Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)

Jeffrey Bub, Tanya Bub (Autoren)

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2018
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9039-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanicsTotally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics--entanglement: what it is, what it means, and what you can do with it.Measure two entangled particles separately, and the outcomes are totally random. But compare the outcomes, and the particles seem as if they are instantaneously influencing each other at a distance-even if they are light-years apart. This, in a nutshell, is entanglement, and if it seems weird, then this book is for you. Totally Random is a graphic experiential narrative that unpacks the deep and insidious significance of the curious correlation between entangled particles to deliver a gut-feel glimpse of a world that is not what it seems. See for yourself how entanglement has led some of the greatest thinkers of our time to talk about crazy-sounding stuff like faster-than-light signaling, many worlds, and cats that are both dead and alive. Find out why it remains one of science's most paradigm-shaking discoveries. Join Niels Bohr's therapy session with the likes of Einstein, Schrodinger, and other luminaries and let go of your commonsense notion of how the world works. Use your new understanding of entanglement to do the seemingly impossible, like beat the odds in the quantum casino, or quantum encrypt a message to evade the Sphinx's all-seeing eye. But look out, or you might just get teleported back to the beginning of the book!A fresh and subversive look at our quantum world with some seriously funny stuff, Totally Random delivers a real understanding of entanglement that will completely change the way you think about the nature of physical reality.

Autor

Tanya Bub is founder of 48th Ave Productions, a web development company. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Jeffrey Bub is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, where he is also a fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. His books include Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates. He lives in Washington, DC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 254 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Schlagworte: action at a distance • Albert Einstein • arbitrariness • Asher Peres • Atomic physics • atomic theory • Attitude (Psychology) • awareness • Bell's theorem • Bending • Cambridge University Press • Certainty • Choose Your Own Adventure • Closed timelike curve • coordinate system • Copenhagen Interpretation • David Bohm • Dayton Miller • de Broglie–Bohm theory • energy level • Epistemology • Eugene Wigner • Explanation • Feeling • Foundations of Physics • Hugh Everett III • Interpretations of quantum mechanics • john gribbin • John von Neumann • Karl Baedeker (scientist) • Lecture • Local hidden variable theory • Lorentz covariance • Many-worlds interpretation • mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics • mathematician • Mathematics • Max Born • Measurement • Mechanics • Modern Physics • Multiverse • Natural Philosophy • Nature Physics • Nicolas Gisin • Niels Bohr • Oxford University Press • Pauli effect • phase transition • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophy of science • Photon • Physical property • physical quantity • Physical Review Letters • physicist • Physics World • Preferred frame • Princeton University Press • Principle • Probability • Prometheus Books • Proportion (architecture) • quantum entanglement • quantum mechanics • Quantum Nonlocality • quantum state • quantum system • Quantum Technology • quantum teleportation • randomness • relative velocity • Relativity of simultaneity • Sandu Popescu • Science • Scientific American • Scientist • Simultaneity • Special relativity • strangeness • Suggestion • Teleportation • Theorem • theory • Theory of relativity • Thought • Thought experiment • Uncertainty • Universal wavefunction • Vacuum • wave function • Werner Heisenberg • Wigner's friend • Wolfgang Pauli • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9039-X / 140089039X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9039-2 / 9781400890392