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Quantum
A Guide for the Perplexèd
- Author: Jim Al-Khalili
- Category: Non-fiction Science
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Pub date: 10 April 2003
- Length: 192 pages
About Quantum
Quantum mechanics is the most fundamental scientific theory known to man. It underpins modern science and technology and even provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you think you understand it, you quite clearly don’t. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be half alive and half dead at the same time? This book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world, explains the theories, explores their consequences and presents a cutting-edge guide to the current state of the science.
About the Author
Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Surrey, where he holds a personal chair in physics and the first University of Surrey chair in the public engagement in science. He has written a number of popular science books, translated so far into 13 languages, with his most recent being Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Allen Lane 2010). He has presented a number of television and radio documentaries including the BAFTA nominated Chemistry: A Volatile History and The Secret Life of Chaos (winner of Best Film Award at the 2010 International Science Films Festival in Athens). In 2008, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Royal Society‟s Michael Faraday prize for science communication.