La danza dei fotoni. Da Einstein al teletrasporto quantistico

Trying to understand the deeper philosophical implications of quantum physics was pretty daunting back when I was a physics student. To try to write a book that explains just that for a lay reader is pretty ambitious, but Zeilinger almost pulls it off. I say "almost" because he still sounds like a p Leggi tutto

A whimsical start largely misdirected me about the difficulty of this book. While my background in physics was helpful for the first third, I quickly found myself rereading chapters, slightly lost among the proofs of abstract quantum theories. Zeilinger tried, and largely succeeded, to make this boo Leggi tutto

Awesome book by a physics nobel-laureate of 2022! A modern introduction to the experimental consequences of quantum mechanics! Here is a sneak peak of my most interesting note :) Experimentally Bell´s inequalities are violated, putting to question the very nature of reality. The consequences are: - Leggi tutto

“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory, physicist Niels Bohr once said, “has not understood it.” Today, more than a century after Max Planck and Albert Einstein made the first contributions to the quantum framework at the start of the 20th century, the theory is as perplexing as ever. If anyth Leggi tutto

This book was substantially enlightening and yet amazingly frustrating at the same time. Zeilinger begins simply enough with the standard story of Alice and Bob (the physicists' personification of observer A and B), but he turns them into curious undergraduates. They are the medium through which the Leggi tutto

Quantum physics, specifically quantum entanglement, is an intriguing concept that is not easy to grasp for even the most erudite science lover. And yet the more I read about it and the more experiments that are completed, the more fascinating it becomes. Anton Zeilinger does his best to explain quan Leggi tutto

This was my first foray in to QM and I am glad I picked this book, primarily because there are a lot of myths and misinterpretations of basic QM theory and learning from a leading QM experimentalist helped avoid that pitfall. While the book doesnt have any mathematical calculations, it is by no mean Leggi tutto

The writer is able to explain one of the most complicated areas of modern physics to a layman without using math. Kudos to him for that! I quite enjoyed the detailed descriptions of the experiments made to conclude the theories of quantum physics. It must be incredibly hard to simplify ones work for Leggi tutto