ISBN: 9798904980795 - quantum unlocked: the strange science beneath everything: a plain english guide to the new reality of quantum physics: 2 (understanding quantum physics series) (5 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You are holding a case file. The crime scene is the universe at its smallest scale, and the evidence refuses every classical explanation. Particles exist in many places at once. Measuring one object instantly shapes what someone finds in another, even a continent away. Particles pass through barriers they have no energy to cross. The act of looking changes what is being observed. These are not metaphors. They are the literal, laboratory-verified behavior of matter and light, confirmed on every continent for more than a century. What the evidence means still is in dispute, and that is the investigation you are joining.This book is written for curious adults with no background in physics who have stopped nodding politely at words like wave function or entanglement and decided to actually understand them. There is no math. Every concept usually conveyed through symbols is built here through stories, experiments, and analogies that are introduced honestly and corrected the moment they begin to mislead. More than one hundred diagrams carry the reasoning that equations carry in a textbook.Inside this book, readers will learn how to: See why classical physics broke - blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, and the atomic spectra that forced a complete rewrite of reality between 1900 and 1925.Grasp wave-particle duality through the double-slit experiment Feynman called the central mystery of physics, and watch a single particle interfere with itself.Master the uncertainty principle as a property of reality itself, not a limitation of instruments - and understand what it actually rules out.Make peace with superposition as a genuine physical state, not a metaphor for ignorance, and follow the cat-in-a-box thought experiment to its real meaning.Read the wave function in plain language as a complete accounting of a particle's possible futures, stripped of every symbol that usually hides it.Witness entanglement honestly - what Einstein called spooky action at a distance, how Bell's inequality settled the matter, and why it cannot send messages faster than light.Walk through tunneling, the mechanism that powers the sun, drives radioactive decay, and lets electrons pass through barriers they classically cannot cross.Tour the technologies you already use that only work because of subatomic rules: transistors, lasers, LEDs, MRI scanners, solar cells, atomic clocks, and the first working quantum computers.Weigh the leading interpretations - Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, and pilot-wave - which agree on every experimental result and disagree, fundamentally, on what is actually happening.Leave with a working vocabulary for the most consequential debate in modern physics, and the confidence to follow the next decade of breakthroughs.Ten progressive chapters move from the failure of classical mechanics to the open frontier of interpretation. Each opens with a real laboratory mystery and closes with a concrete takeaway.Most books force a brutal choice: cartoon metaphors that leave you no smarter, or textbooks bristling with calculus. There has been almost nothing in between for the adult who simply wants to understand. This book closes that gap.If you have wanted to follow a real conversation about superposition, entanglement, the measurement problem, or the new generation of quantum computers - not just nod along - start here. You will finish able to name the strangeness, describe its mechanisms, and reason about it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…