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A review by paulfwatts
Beyond Weird [Paperback] BALL, PHILIP by Philip Ball
5.0
I have had a keen but layman’s interest in the Quantum World for as long as I can remember, since first discovering the topic as a child in my set of children’s encyclopaedias.
While I don’t have the brain power, or the mathematical ability, to fully understand everything explained in this book there nevertheless have been some truly profound moments reading this book that have immensely enlarged my understanding of this topic.
In particular I have always been puzzled on how the quantum world can seemingly operate in such a radically different way to the “classical” view of the world we see around us and how the two can co-exist at the same time with such fundamentally different “views”.
The section on “decoherence” in this book was the lightbulb moment that built on everything before it and fully answered this question for me based on observable experiments (the scientific method).
This is one of those books that you need to keep reading, even if you don’t fully understand all that you have read. The nice thing is you are not alone on this as some of the greatest minds, including Einstein, have been at a loss to explain it.
This book opens the mind to so many possibilities and areas of exploration, in a scientific way, that transcends the physical science into the very nature of “reality” and the structure of space-time itself.
I’m truly in awe of some of the physical experiments that have been devised to demonstrate and prove these quantum concepts and the genius of the minds behind them as written about in this book.
If you are even remotely interested in this topic then I highly recommend reading this book.
While I don’t have the brain power, or the mathematical ability, to fully understand everything explained in this book there nevertheless have been some truly profound moments reading this book that have immensely enlarged my understanding of this topic.
In particular I have always been puzzled on how the quantum world can seemingly operate in such a radically different way to the “classical” view of the world we see around us and how the two can co-exist at the same time with such fundamentally different “views”.
The section on “decoherence” in this book was the lightbulb moment that built on everything before it and fully answered this question for me based on observable experiments (the scientific method).
This is one of those books that you need to keep reading, even if you don’t fully understand all that you have read. The nice thing is you are not alone on this as some of the greatest minds, including Einstein, have been at a loss to explain it.
This book opens the mind to so many possibilities and areas of exploration, in a scientific way, that transcends the physical science into the very nature of “reality” and the structure of space-time itself.
I’m truly in awe of some of the physical experiments that have been devised to demonstrate and prove these quantum concepts and the genius of the minds behind them as written about in this book.
If you are even remotely interested in this topic then I highly recommend reading this book.