ISBN-13: 9781519240682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 44 str.
ISBN-13: 9781519240682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 44 str.
This three volume series seeks to make enough sense to satisfy you without the need for hard physics and mathematics. Quantum is just too weird if we look only to our experiences in the world around us to try to validate what scientists understand about quantum theory and quantum physics. Instead, we need to sneak up on it, building our knowledge slowly, recognizing anomalies, trying to explain conundrums and seeming impossibilities, testing and discarding and rebuilding ideas, and validating our theories experimentally, bit by bit until at least some of quantum begins to make sense. There is no way anyone can explain quantum theory to the beginner or non-scientist by diving right into the subject. That's why this subject is presented in three, easy-to-read volumes. In Volume 1 we learned that 3,000 years of classical physics finally met its match when the strange results of experiments on ever smaller "things" could not be explained. Each new finding seemed to lead to an endless series of new questions and new experiments. And each new finding disclosed ever tinier "particles" and strange new "things." Breakthrough understandings by Einstein and Heisenberg, revealed in Volume 2, left as many questions as answers. Serious inquiry in the early 20th Century, prompted by these two giants, revealed that the nature of "nature" was still largely a mystery.