In Search of Schrodinger's Cat

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bu tarihin her noktasındaki zorlukları, anlaşılmazlıkları, sorunları irdeleyerek ilerliyor, bu da kavramsal olgunluğu artırıyor. He then explains the Planck's black body radiation and the famous two-slit experiment whose observations threw the entire scientific community into a state of utter ambiguity and disarray about the nature of electrons.

The complex concepts are explained effectively and with care towards not diluting the essential core physical principles down to nothing in the name of simplification and accessibility. It investigates the atom, radiation, time travel, the birth of the universe, super conductors and life itself. Overall, probably not unexpectedly, it changes your perception of a huge variety of reality aspects. Gribbin's book has been cited as an example of how to revive an interest in the study of mathematics.I'm grateful that Gribbin caveats this chapter by acknowledging that it is more opinion than the rest of the book, although he does then proceed to continue in the same 'this is undeniably true' tone for the rest of the chapter. The first two parts of the book explore the discussions, and scientific developments as quantum theories began to emerge from classical Newtonian approaches. If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. The author in the end also touches upon the theory of supersymmetry which is the latest field under study within the quantum community and deals with unifying matter (particles like electrons,protons, quarks etc) and force (the bosons like photons etc).

the text in 2021 is definitely showing its age, more than 35 years I believe since it's initial publishing - it's particularly obvious when talking about the fantastic new technology -- Lasers! En los años en los que era un joven muy curioso pero también muy ignorante de casi todo, la historia y los protagonistas me importaban muy poco (en realidad eran como un estorbo para entender las ideas últimas que quería entender). Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. It was a thought experiment, produced to ask "when does a Quantum model cease to be a mixture and become one thing or another?

Hoy, con los años, la manera como las ideas de la teoría cuántica emergieron en el seno de una comunidad de jóvenes creativos y de "viejos" escépticos están entre las cosas que mas me interesan. Si bien mucha agua ha pasado por el río de la física contemporánea desde el tiempo en el que el texto fue escrito (finales de los 80) los temas y las discusiones tienen una actualidad pasmosa que demuestra lo poco que realmente hemos avanzado en la comprensión de la teoría cuántica. Ama illa bir şeyler anlayayım, hiç olmazsa neden anlaşılamayacağını anlayayım, derseniz bu kitap hiç fena bir başlangıç noktası değil. Gribbin explains the body of evidence leading up to the development of quantum physics and summarises the historical context in which it occurred.

He believes that parallel worlds do exist but not the way in which we imagine (in most of the sci-fiction books) where we can hop between the alternate universes but all the alternate universes according to quantum theory branch out based on the choices that the observer encounters. I felt disappointed by this book's lack of imaginative storytelling, there is little to excite the imagination or take us on a journey through his passion or bring a fresh perspective on physics. This is the kind of book I can keep coming back to as the puzzle pieces come together, and I’m fine with that. He begins with an explanation on the very basic unit of life - "the atom" and the various evolving attempts by scientists to give an accurate description of the structure of an atom (Including the various experiments leading to the discovery of protons, neutrons and electrons). It's really really well written, even by the high standards of popular science set by the luminaries, and remains deliciously readable even after more than three decades since its publication.Although nearer the end there’s a little sprinkle of cosmology, which was greatly appreciated as well. Gribbin reveals the concepts very slowly, which might not be a bad thing, so this may seem a bit tedious at first. He investigates the atom, radiation, time travel, the birth of the universe, super conductors and life itself. maybe after a certain number of reads it will stick - because i am not naturally good at this sort of subject. That part dealt with actual state of quantum theory, and needs considerable conceptual clarity, which is not so easy to muster at my stage.

The entire book has been an amazing ride through the mindbogglingly unbelievable world of the sub-atomic particles and i cant say it better than Neils Bohr - "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not fully understood it". The first 120 pages boil the pot handsomely by serving historical aspects like the nature of light, the emergence of electrons, radioactivity, the black body problem, and its unconventional solution that dealt the first blow to classical physics, breaking into the world of a Swiss patent clerk with his 4 papers, one of them being photoelectric effect -that was the proto platform of later quantum developments and so on. In 1974, Gribbin published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrant on one side of the Sun on March 10, 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, possibly wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs. When the observer looks into the box, he forces one outcome , which is the cat is either dead or alive and the other possibility still exists in its own world with its own observer (which is as real as our universe).This book does have a lot of good information and does explain some aspects of quantum mechanics very well for someone with little experience, but he kind of unravels at the end.