The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

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    SIGNED BY BRIAN COX & JEFF FORSHAW  The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen      


                                                                        Published by Allen Lane, 2011, hardcover, index, 255 pages, condition: new. 


In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible.
The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the 'weirdness' of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory.

The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newtons laws of motion, Maxwells theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einsteins theory of relativity. 
"This book successfully deriving Heisenberg's Uncertainty correlation from first principles and moving on from there to explain Quantum theory without using complex mathematics. The book literally walks you through the approximate derivation of the The Chandrasekhar limit beginning from classical concepts without solving a single partial differential equation of any order. It also stops to appreciate how such an incredible truth about the Universe can be divined from just sitting down with a paper and pencil and simply thinking. I think this book is special because it gives the lay reader a taste of how to THINK about QM from the basics.  "

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