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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition

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This is the kind of book I can keep coming back to as the puzzle pieces come together, and I’m fine with that. Overall, probably not unexpectedly, it changes your perception of a huge variety of reality aspects. Needless to say, talking cats appearing out of nowhere and speaking in riddles was not usual in my daily routine.

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I think this book is meant for laypeople, you don't need to understand any equations, but even for an expert, I think having the history laid out like this, and told in such a personable voice, must be interesting and helpful. As Richard Feynman said, “One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. The first half of the book is mostly intricate historical accounts of the key players of the story of quantum mechanics over the last century. The meta-lesson is that while analogies are memorable, we need to sanity check them with the source material every now and again. scarcely any of them will realise that every item on that list has its roots in quantum mechanics, a branch of science that they may never have heard of and almost certainly do not understand.However, I enjoyed this immensely and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a low to no math introduction to quantum mechanics. As a 'non-science' person, I can't say I followed everything but enough to give me a solid understanding for what it is and why it's so mystifying. He then explains the Planck's black body radiation and the famous two-slit experiment whose observations threw the entire scientific community into a state of utter ambiguity and disarray about the nature of electrons. Gribbin reveals the concepts very slowly, which might not be a bad thing, so this may seem a bit tedious at first.

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I did only vaguely - but I wanted to save myself from getting scratched, which I seemed to be in imminent danger of. This implies that the cat or anything in the box is a wave function accompanied by myriad ghost realities that will collapse into a single reality (dead or alive cat) when you decide to see it. The topical range of his prolific writings includes quantum physics, biographies of famous scientists, human evolution, the origins of the universe, climate change and global warming. History at least for one photon depends upon how we choose to make a measurement… Philosophers have long pondered the fact that history has no meaning - the past has no existence - except in the way it is recorded in the present. Yes: There are fuzzy "infinitely small" quantities that blip away to 0 when we measure them, but are non-zero in their own world.

Physics is about probing into the unknown and what we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible straitjacket. The universe has already worked out what happened before you looked (hence his famous quote, "God does not play dice. Well, it was all these scientists talking about wave/ particle duality - how subatomic particles behaved both like a wave and a particle, and changed into one or the other only upon observation. In 1974, Gribbin published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrant on one side of the Sun on March 10, 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, possibly wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs. It's really really well written, even by the high standards of popular science set by the luminaries, and remains deliciously readable even after more than three decades since its publication.

He believes that parallel worlds do exist but not the way in which we imagine (in most of the sci-fiction books) where we can hop between the alternate universes but all the alternate universes according to quantum theory branch out based on the choices that the observer encounters. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat). What happens when the observer is not looking is something that is not explained by the quantum theory (and can only be speculated). Ama illa bir şeyler anlayayım, hiç olmazsa neden anlaşılamayacağını anlayayım, derseniz bu kitap hiç fena bir başlangıç noktası değil.He investigates the atom, radiation, time travel, the birth of the universe, superconductors and life itself. Einstein thought Schrödinger refuted the notion that reality was "blurry" and depended on the observer. We have to find a new view of the world that has to agree with everything that is known, but disagrees in its predictions somewhere.

bu tarihin her noktasındaki zorlukları, anlaşılmazlıkları, sorunları irdeleyerek ilerliyor, bu da kavramsal olgunluğu artırıyor. First off, if you liked the movie Oppenheimer this fills out the background to the scientists of the time in way that’s actually approachable (particularly for someone like me who didn’t enjoy science or chemistry at school).I'm grateful that Gribbin caveats this chapter by acknowledging that it is more opinion than the rest of the book, although he does then proceed to continue in the same 'this is undeniably true' tone for the rest of the chapter. This book does have a lot of good information and does explain some aspects of quantum mechanics very well for someone with little experience, but he kind of unravels at the end. This about reading the source text and recognizing that the Schrödinger's Cat was used as a reductio ad absurdum, and is not what Schrödinger believed.

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