Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

by Philip Ball

Book Overview

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022655838X
• ISBN13: 9780226558387
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"