Jim Al-Khalili

A physicist introduces the fascinating but complex world of quantum physics for lay readers in a book full of specific and graphic examples of quantum theory in action. Reprint.

Quantum

Nature's conjuring trick. Buckyballs and the dual-slit experiment / Markus Arndt & Anton Zeilinger. Origins. Probability and chance. Radioactive decay / Ron Johnson. Spooky connections. Quantum chaology / Michael Berry. The watchers and the watched. The great debate. Quantum reality, according to de Broglie and Bohm / Chris Dewdney. The subatomic world. Elementary constituents / Frank Close. The search for the ultimate theory. Accentuating the negative / Paul Davies. Putting the quantum to work. Bose-Einstein condensates / Ed Hines -- Quantum mechanics and biology / Johnjoe McFadden. Into the new millennium. Quantum computing / Andrew Steane.

A Guide for the Perplexed

Branko Sabaric

Teddy Calavera

Christopher Wheeler

From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world. Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be half-alive and half-dead at the same time? Our journey into the quantum begins with nature's own conjuring trick, in which we discover that atoms -- contrary to the rules of everyday experience -- can exist in two locations at once. To understand this we travel back to the dawn of the twentieth century and witness the birth of quantum theory, which over the next one hundred years was to overthrow so many of our deeply held notions about the nature of our universe. Scientists and philosophers have been left grappling with its implications every since.

Quantum

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