How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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Now I know that most people would rather undergo painful dental surgery than spend their free time reading a book about science, but this book deserves a chance.

I've never read a popular physics book that didn't just skip over that part, and it made some of the concepts a lot easier to understand.

Normally, when she goes on point, I can trust that there really is a squirrel, even if I can't see it, but this time I was certain there was no squirrel.

The material is presented in a way that the reader can get the general idea, and continue on without getting bogged down. I am in a quagmire, I am thrashing around, straining to grasp the branch of a tree in an attempt to steady myself, to lift myself onto solid ground. He includes lots of helpful diagrams and explains what each different kind of experiment can and can't prove, how and why.A complicated yet quite enjoyable book about quantum physics, it follows the interactions and dialogue of a scientist and his dog, their dialog starts the explanation on various topic and their mechanics as, for example, it is explained why the dog cant be on two places at once to cross a three and ambush a squirrel. Accordingly, the state vector is a sort of probability-weighted average of all the allowed states of a 'particle'.

But the insights of quantum physics tell a story that is simply irreconcilable with this mental picture. El autor presenta algunos de los hitos de la física en forma de situaciones que hipotéticamente, le podrían de ser de utilidad en a un perro al momento de tratar de atrapar a un conejo o ardilla, recibir más premios, o de las posibilidades de encontrar más comida tirada en el piso de una cocina. Another thing that is vaguely unsettling is that a particle can be part of a system in which it gives up its individual existence. If a particle can be in different positions at once, and lose its haecceity (the characteristics that define a thing as a particular thing, also known in philosophical literature by the funny expression "thisness"), then we are really not dealing with tiny billiard balls at all, are we? From there the author moves to an explanation of the topic and the experiments used to prove the theory correct.We didn't " see" this in chapter 2, but that's really just a quibble with his English rather than a complaint about the way he explains his physics. We have not developed any words that would allow us to capture these dynamics, simply because we never had any need to. I can totally see there being a sweet spot, though, an audience for this book both dog-happy and math-friendly—but I just don’t belong to that, and I have plenty of other physics books I still need to read.