The conversations with the dog, although they actually are occasionally a bit cutesy, are funny and do add information that helps clarify the science presented. Además, no deja de ser enternecedor el pensar que en verdad fue escrito para un Perro, eso si, ¡uno de los más brillantes del mundo! It's particularly strange, because this e-book had the best footnoting of any e-book I've ever read, but it couldn't do page references.

Before we try to measure the position, there is a chance that we will find the particle here, there, and everywhere. The book is not an introduction to the ideas, but rather an attempt to explain its core concepts with some depth and specificity (albeit briefly and in lay terms). From quarks and gluons to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this is the perfect introduction to the fundamental laws which govern the universe.I've been exposed to this subject a thousand times and I keep bashing my head against the physics wall hoping something will sink in yet I still understand very little. Bueno, como libro de divulgación científica, se trata de una obra muy entretenida, y sobre todo, sencilla de entender para el más ignorante en el tema. In a baffling feat, 'particles' exist in all their allowed states simultaneously, like a schizophrenic who manages to act out all his different personalities at once. Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner. A classical field is a near-physical object in which every point has a uniquely measurable identity.

The unique concept behind the book is both its charm and the reason for me to doubt whether or not to give it a slightly lower rating. Readers who've shied away from popular treatments of physics in the past may find his cheerful discussion a real treat.It’s hard for me to approach books like this from the eyes of a first timer, because I’ve read so many—I don’t pretend that means I know a lot about quantum mechanics, but you do start to hear the same stories over and over. On the other hand, the tone is somewhat different from the rest of the book, so this last chapter feels less connected to what comes before. We would be able to recognise the limitations of language, and in so doing re-define somewhat the idea that we and 'reality' are somehow disparate entities. I have started to think about particles as a kind of non-local 'fog' that is spread out across the entire universe, with different densities at different, specific, spacetime locations.

As written, it keeps citing page numbers of previously mentioned theorems and experiments: but they refer to a page number in some particular dead-tree-book edition. The thing I really liked about this book is that Orzel actually goes into detail about how the experiments were designed that proved various aspects of quantum theory. Well, after that, it breaks into super heavy reading about physics and how the dog would need to go so slow that it would take him longer than the universe's existance to seperate and refract around the tree. This book tries with best intentions, simplest explanations and concrete examples to explain the this mind-boggling branch of modern physics under the comfy blanket of conversations with a dog.If you don't mind a talking dog, and frequent references to bunnies, then this is an excellent introduction to quantum physics. Still, there is a link to the book, and you will find it in the middle of my blurb under the heading "A message to Chad". Not being a dog person, I thought these sections might start to grate after a while, but they were actually tremendously helpful).

Anybody who was forced by their physics teacher at school to comment on the way that iron filings orientate when brought into proximity with a magnet knows what the classical interpretation of a field is.I must admit that I cannot say I truly understand all the information presented in the book, but I read it with pleasure anyway. She's not so enthralled with the Copenhagen interpretation: "I don't think I like this interpretation, it's awfully solipsistic, isn't it? The writing and tone were fantastic - it��s the quantum bits that were more difficult to get my head around. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not easy to read and after some chapters I had to watch some videos and do further reading to really comprehend the things covered here.