How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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I thought you explained the physics well, and I liked your book for these explanations, but I found myself skipping over the animal-metaphors very early on.

From 1999-2001, Chad was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Physics Department at Yale University, studying Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) in the group of Mark Kasevich. He helped me understand the uncertainty principle in a way I never had before, and if I couldn't quite make the leap to its application in the subsequent chapters, well, I truly don't think the fault lies with the author.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. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is Yet Another Pop Sci look at quantum mechanics, albeit one from a more technical than, say, historical perspective. The amplitudes 'a(t)' of the states '|Stars>' are complex numbers normalised so that the sum of their squared moduli is unity (equals one). The book starts off with the main character being Chad, I presume, talking to his dog about bunny rabbits and other garden animals. Not only did it explain quantum with astute precision but also helped me develop a keen interest in quantum.

The idea of this revised way of thinking about reality is to reverse the relationship between an object and its properties - and then get rid of the object. What happens to the ultra-fundamental human concept of countability when we deal with entangled states? I am expressing thoughts that were triggered through my reading of his book, and I find these thoughts fascinating. It's far less mathematical than the book on quantum physics by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw ( Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw) and, perhaps because of that, is much more enjoyable. He includes lots of helpful diagrams and explains what each different kind of experiment can and can't prove, how and why.

And, in fact, near the end of the book, where I pulled this quote, he actually does explain zero-point energy better.

It's not useless for people like me who have a fair bit of physics background, but are not up on QED; and of course it's probably terrible if you're a graduate quantum physicist. Si desean una pequeña introducción acerca de los misterios del universo y como los físicos están acercándose a entenderlos y resolverlos, este libro es un excelente apoyo, no deja de ser una obra de divulgación, pero es ameno, divertido, y a ratos incluso enternecedor. There is no room for actual proof or big equations in this book, but I don't think that that would have been fitting in this context. I found this device far too distracting and cheesy for my tastes, and it adds very little to Orzel’s explanations. I was less enamoured whenever he started talking about photons as waves and interference patterns … the way he was explaining it ended up confusing me and doubting my knowledge of quantum physics rather than honing it!Accordingly, the state vector is a sort of probability-weighted average of all the allowed states of a 'particle'. Orzel has a tendency to state a proposition, then use it later as a proof, which is bad science but probably good science-writing—actually demonstrating the proof would lose a lot of readers. Taking Emmy’s anarchic behaviour as a starting point, Orzel explains the key theories of quantum physics. I am aware that in my own review, I have done the same, and introduced the metaphors of 'fog' and 'schizophrenic' to capture the behaviour of particles.