A review by jeffspurlock
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball

4.0

Overall, I thought it was great, and did a great job of illustrating what we can and cannot know about quantum systems via the schroedinger equation, and a means of thinking about why we can and cannot know these things. Also, one of the best explanations of quantum decoherence I've ever read. Ball makes it very clear where and why classical behavior emerges from quantum systems in a way that I have previously never been able to grasp as clearly. I knocked off one star because late in the book Ball makes a valiant effort to strike down the Everettians, and while I don't disagree with him, I don't think he did a good enough job making the case. I wasn't convinced by his argument, and I'm not even an ardent Everettian.