Quantum Physics in Minutes

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Quantum Physics in Minutes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gemma Lavender
SeriesIn Minutes
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 114,Width 126
Category/GenreQuantum physics
ISBN/Barcode 9781786481214
ClassificationsDewey:539
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition Illustrated edition
Illustrations 200 B&W

Publishing Details

Publisher Quercus Publishing
Imprint Quercus Publishing
Publication Date 4 May 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.