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. 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. The "many-worlds interpretation" contradicts the Copenhagen interpretation in the sense it assumes all the possibilities to be equally real and exist in their own worlds with their own observers (us being one of them). This is the kind of book I can keep coming back to as the puzzle pieces come together, and I’m fine with that.

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one of the anecdotes told and retold about Niels Bohr is that when someone came to him with a wild idea purporting to resolve one of the puzzles of quantum theory in the 1920’s he replied, “Your theory is crazy. bu tarihin her noktasındaki zorlukları, anlaşılmazlıkları, sorunları irdeleyerek ilerliyor, bu da kavramsal olgunluğu artırıyor.There rested mainly two theoretical swords or guns in the valley in the early upbringing of quantum. La historia y las discusiones que aborda siguen siendo tan actuales como lo fueron en el momento en el que fue escrito. 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. Being somewhat new to these concepts, I'm not sure if I'm meshing too well with the opinions on parallel universes that Gribbin states at the end, and the illustrations are badly placed, only moderately insightful, and actually contradict the text in places.

Learning Gotcha: How We Misunderstood Schrödinger’s Cat Learning Gotcha: How We Misunderstood Schrödinger’s Cat

Gribbin repudiated The Jupiter Effect in the July 17, 1980, issue of New Scientist magazine in which he stated that he had been "too clever by half". Einstein thought Schrödinger refuted the notion that reality was "blurry" and depended on the observer. A vial of a deadly chemical which will instantly kill the cat is placed inside with the cat, sealed so the feline is safe. Another theory, the MWI or Many World Interpretation is not big on uncertainty but hurls another outrageous curveball. It's like hearing that the Emperor's New Clothes is about the eye-opening power of fashion without reading the tale yourself.

Having just wrapped the book up, my memory with innumerable sieves(I have forgotten the number) is nagging me to jot down my gleanings from this one. Gribbin reveals the concepts very slowly, which might not be a bad thing, so this may seem a bit tedious at first. La capacidad de John Gribbin de despertar la curiosidad y al mismo tiempo ser un buen crítico de la manera como los físicos hemos divulgado o entendemos la teoría cuántica es genial, especialmente al hablar de un tema de tanto interés. Yes: There are fuzzy "infinitely small" quantities that blip away to 0 when we measure them, but are non-zero in their own world.

You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees that one cannot get around the assumption of reality, if only one is honest. Hoy quiero que otros se enamoren del tema y quería saber que podía aprender del libro para mi propio ejercicio de divulgación.

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. The book does show its age at parts but his amazement at PCs and LASERs does not change the fact that they are awesome and stem from the study of quantum mechanics. According to the first of them, Copenhagen interpretations, Chance plays the chancellor or Chairman. Some more experiments later they discover the "photon" and the dual nature (particle and wave nature) of light and particles like electrons. 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.

For me now it has become apparent that time travel, teleportation, antimatter and multiple realities are well established phenomena of physics, not of unhealthy imagination. 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. 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. When you decide to open the box the world instantly splits into two with a dead cat in one and a purring and very much alive cat in another.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).