Through two doors at once :
Ananthaswamy, Anil,
Through two doors at once : the elegant experiment that captures the enigma of our quantum reality / Anil Ananthaswamy. - New York, NY : Dutton, 2019. - x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The case of the experiment with two holes. Richard Feynman explains the central mystery -- What does it mean "to be"?. The road to reality, from Copenhagen to Brussels -- Between reality and perception. Doing the double slit, one photon at a time -- From sacred texts. Revelations about spooky action at a distance -- To erase or not to erase. Mountaintop experiments take us to the edge -- Bohmian rhapsody. Obvious ontology evolving the obvious way -- Gravity kills the quantum cat?. The case for bringing spacetime into the mix -- Healing an ugly scar. The many worlds medicine.
"It's the story of quantum mechanics told through the lens of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how light passing through two slits cut into a cardboard sheet first challenged our understanding of light and the nature of reality almost two hundred years ago--and continues to do so"--
9781101986097 1101986093 9781101986103
2018008272
Quantum theory--Popular works.
Wave theory of light--Popular works.
Reality--Popular works.
QC174.123 / .A53 2018
530.12
Through two doors at once : the elegant experiment that captures the enigma of our quantum reality / Anil Ananthaswamy. - New York, NY : Dutton, 2019. - x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The case of the experiment with two holes. Richard Feynman explains the central mystery -- What does it mean "to be"?. The road to reality, from Copenhagen to Brussels -- Between reality and perception. Doing the double slit, one photon at a time -- From sacred texts. Revelations about spooky action at a distance -- To erase or not to erase. Mountaintop experiments take us to the edge -- Bohmian rhapsody. Obvious ontology evolving the obvious way -- Gravity kills the quantum cat?. The case for bringing spacetime into the mix -- Healing an ugly scar. The many worlds medicine.
"It's the story of quantum mechanics told through the lens of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how light passing through two slits cut into a cardboard sheet first challenged our understanding of light and the nature of reality almost two hundred years ago--and continues to do so"--
9781101986097 1101986093 9781101986103
2018008272
Quantum theory--Popular works.
Wave theory of light--Popular works.
Reality--Popular works.
QC174.123 / .A53 2018
530.12