Quantum physics and reality
No detective story, no fun. It's much more than a whodunit and rather than fun, it's chilling. The whole book is about things that are so strange that even Einstein devoted a significant part of his life to trying to translate them into classical form (i.e. into the form of classical physical deterministic theories). In vain. Schrödinger's cat - an animal half dead, half alive - is a creature that haunted even the one who brought it into the world in the form of a thought experiment intended to represent the objectivity of probability, i.e. the end of classical determinism.
Can an electron pass through two different slits at the same time? Can a cat be alive and dead at the same time? Experienced popularizer John Gribbin presents the wondrous world of quantum physics in an engaging and accessible way. It deals with quantum mechanics and in particular with the uncertainty principle, which is a groundbreaking idea for the study of the microworld. If you'd like to know, as possible, that a serious physicist would conclude that either nothing exists, or everything exists, what's possible, you have no choice, than to read this book. The author combines historical and logical principles of interpretation in a very accessible way and thus manages to present the basic problems on which quantum mechanics is based.
