In Search of Schrodinger's Cat

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The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. According to the first of them, Copenhagen interpretations, Chance plays the chancellor or Chairman. In the middle, we are swiftly transported to the gate of quantum riding on Niels Bohr's atomic model (electrons in the joy of getting their hands on photon packets jump around the atom), Pauli's exclusion theory, Louis De Broglie's particle-wave duality (electrons act as set frequency wave on set shells just like ringing strings of a violin) and finally witness, according to sir Arthur Eddington, "The Jabberwocky" of science. This is the kind of book I can keep coming back to as the puzzle pieces come together, and I’m fine with that. An in depth discussion of the birth of quantum physics, where it is now and what it means for the future.

The subject of quantum mechanics is stuffed full of apparent paradoxes and produces results which defy our intuition, making it incredibly interesting to study.The one drawback of this book is also one of its biggest strengths — its lack of mathematical formalisms. This implies that the cat or anything in the box is a wave function accompanied by myriad ghost realities that will collapse into a single reality (dead or alive cat) when you decide to see it. For me now it has become apparent that time travel, teleportation, antimatter and multiple realities are well established phenomena of physics, not of unhealthy imagination. It feels surreal to find the natural phenomenon facilitating such an interpretation of the social reality.

I believe Jhon Gribbin masterfully captures the core of what modern quantum science encompasses as well as the chronology if it's development.Keep in mind that this an illustration of what Schrodinger saw as the problem with the Copenhagen idea of Quantum superposition. Maybe it was the passage of time and the advancement of science, maybe it was my own further studies in the field, maybe it was own growth and change in preferences, or maybe I just things didn't notice the first time. This is followed by discoveries by Pauli (the Pauli exclusion principle), Heisenberg, Born and Schrondinger which strengthen the theory of quantum mechanics.

Overall, probably not unexpectedly, it changes your perception of a huge variety of reality aspects.

Being somewhat new to these concepts, I'm not sure if I'm meshing too well with the opinions on parallel universes that Gribbin states at the end, and the illustrations are badly placed, only moderately insightful, and actually contradict the text in places. An obvious (and amusing) thing about the narration performance is that the reader sounds exactly, and I mean exactly, like Jude Law. Hoy quiero que otros se enamoren del tema y quería saber que podía aprender del libro para mi propio ejercicio de divulgación.