Quantum Physics in Minutes

Gemma Lavender

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Quercus
11 July 2017

Mathematics & Sciences; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory)

Series: In Minutes

The fastest way to understanding quantum physics - learn about how our universe works, in minutes.

Quantum physics is the most fundamental, but also the most bewildering, of sciences. Allowing for simultaneously dead-and-alive cats, teleportation, antimatter and parallel universes, it also underpins all digital technology and even life itself. But at last it's possible through this clear and compact book, illuminated with 200 simple diagrams for anyone to understand the strange and beautiful subatomic world, and hence the nature of reality itself.

Contents include: inside the atom, the Higgs boson, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger's cat, relativity, dark energy and matter, black holes, God playing dice, the Theory of Everything, the birth and fate of the Universe, string theory, quantum computing, superconductivity, quantum biology and consciousness, and much more.

By: Gemma Lavender
Imprint: Quercus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Illustrated edition
Dimensions: Height: 126mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781786481214
ISBN 10: 1786481219
Series: In Minutes
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 11 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gemma Lavender is editor of All About Space magazine and writes for Astronomy Now and Physics World magazines. She has worked for Scientific Reports and the Institute of Physics and holds a Master of Physics.