 Purchase this book from amazon.co.uk Bruce Rosenblum is Professor of Physics and former Chairperson of the Physics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has consulted extensively for the US government and industry on technical and policy issues. Fred Kuttner teaches physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His extensive industry experience includes two start-up companies. | Quantum Enigma
Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner ‘This excellent book provides patient and luminous explanations of the weirdness [of quantum phsyics] ... Rosenblum and Kuttner have done a brilliant job of shocking the reader anew’ Steven Poole Guardian ‘A remarkable and readable presentation of the basic mysteries of science, our universe, and human life’ Charles Townes, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics More quotes Everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. Light sometimes behaves like a particle, sometimes like a wave. Objects separated by vast distances interact faster than the speed of light – what Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’. Most strangely, the behaviour of objects somehow seems be determined in retrospect, depending on what the observer is looking for. In this groundbreaking work the authors show how these quantum properties are being observed in larger and larger objects. They set out carefully and cautiously exactly what quantum theory might mean for us. Quantum physics presents an unanswerable challenge to our common sense understanding of the universe, and the final explanation might not come from physics at all, but from the equally strange world of cognitive neuroscience … the mysteries of mind and matter might be one and the same. Click on the author's links above to visit the Quantum Enigma website. |
