Through Two Doors at Once

The Enigmatic Story of our Quantum Reality

Anil Ananthaswamy

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English

Duckworth
23 January 2020

Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; Particle & high-energy physics; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Computer science

The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics.

How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act of looking bring it into reality? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and our perceivable world begins?

Many of science's greatest minds - including Thomas Young, Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman - have grappled with the questions embodied in the simple yet elusive 'double-slit' experiment in order to understand the fabric of our universe. With his extraordinary gift for making the complicated comprehensible, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed, to reveal the answers.

By: Anil Ananthaswamy
Imprint: Duckworth
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780715653920
ISBN 10: 071565392X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 23 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former deputy news editor and staff writer at New Scientist. He has also written for Nature, Scientific American, Discover, Quanta and the Literary Review. He won the Book of the Year award from Physics World (2010), the best investigative journalism award from the Association of British Science Writers (2013) and was longlisted for the Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2016). He is currently a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Reviews for Through Two Doors at Once: The Enigmatic Story of our Quantum Reality

'A fascinating read and a must for anyone who would like to find out the latest experimental advances made in this most fundamental of quantum experiments' Physics World ‘Offers beginners the tools they need to seriously engage with the philosophical questions that likely drew them to quantum mechanics’ Science ‘Cleverly comes at quantum physics from a different direction... An excellent addition to the “Quantum physics for the rest of us” shelf’ Brian Clegg ‘Simply an outstanding exploration of the double slit experiment and what makes it so weird’ Forbes