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Title: In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality by John Gribbin ISBN: 0-553-34253-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be required reading for ALL college students
Comment: Look! At the photon! It's a particle! No, it's a wave! No, it's a... well, it's BOTH!!! And not only that, but it can interfere with itself, or with other consequential photons!
WHAT?!?!?
Welcome to the wacky world of quantum physics, the science so absurd that even Einstein couldn't believe it (and let's face it, after relativity, he was the MASTER of the absurd-but-true) where statistics are everything, specifics only happen when you're looking for them, and nothing is real at all, anywhere.
Again, WHAT?!?!?
In Schroedinger's Cat, John Gribbin not only explains all this nonsense, but he actually makes it understandable. This amazing book should be required of all college students, as part of a well-rounded education. Engineers and scientists will be amazed and think it's cool, but even "fuzzy majors" (i.e. everything else -- sorry, that's what we arrogant engineers called the denizens of that side of campus) will be able to understand it, and they too will be enlightened by it.
If you have any interest in science, in knowing what theoretical physicists really do, in knowing what a "particle accelerator" is, or even just want to have some idea about how much of Star Trek is based on real science, you MUST read this book. Not only that, but you must read THIS book before reading other books on quantum mechanics.
Ok, enough ranting. I think it takes a certain amount of Zen to grasp all this quantum non-reality particle-wave-duality possible-parallel-universe stuff. Gribbin, then, is the true Zen Master. Gribbin takes that which is not only beyond comprehension but beyond even Einstein's belief, and makes it understandable to the layman. He uses great examples that not only explain key concepts, but also help the non-Zen-Master remember them in such a way that makes one sound like a Guru at cocktail parties.
Pardon my silliness. Just read the book. And then buy it for all your friends, kids, friends' kids, coworkers, and anyone else on your gift list. Yes, it's THAT good.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read
Comment: It's hard to overstate the importance of this book. It's also hard to overstate the value. John Gribbin has written one of those timeless books that belongs to the ages. Despite the fact that it's decades out of date, it's still current. Despite the fact that much has been discovered about the field of quantum physics since he wrote this book, nothing in it has been superseded. And yet, it's so clear that "Cat" is one of those books that those of us who write about science and technology as a profession use as a touchstone - a book that we compare our own writing against - and find wanting.
My original copy of this book is so worn from reading that it must be replaced. Both of my daughters read this book, and became physicists or are about to. This is a book so important, and so readable, that it helps define its category.
This is more than a good read. It's a necessary read.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Mind Boggles
Comment: A friend recommended this book to me...little did I know I was about to embark on a journey to the heart of the atom, and the limits of the known universe.
I am not generally a math person, but John Gribbin makes the ideas and equations of quantum mechanics accessible to non mathematical people in a readable, non patronising yet entertaining way.
More than anything else, this book demonstrated to me the truth of something that Madeleine L'Engle frequently states in her non fiction; scientists are indeed the modern mystics.
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Title: Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality : Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag: Author of In Search of Schrod. Cat by John Gribbin ISBN: 0316328197 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: In Search of the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes by John Gribbin ISBN: 0140248145 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375708111 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Q IS FOR QUANTUM: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics by John Gribbin ISBN: 0684863154 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Quantum Reality : Beyond the New Physics by Nick Herbert ISBN: 0385235690 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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