![]() ![]() I tried hard in that chapter to do justice to the important ideas of quantum mechanics - superpositions, entanglement, measurement, decoherence, probabilities - without getting bogged down in technical details. (The intro to GR was, admittedly, Chapter 5.) ![]() When I wrote From Eternity to Here, I fooled everybody with an unprecedented step: I put my intro to QM late in the book, in Chapter 11. ![]() Depending on the subject, one of the early chapters is guaranteed to be an overview of either quantum mechanics or general relativity. Sure, you can do pretty well in just five words, but sometimes you need to be a little more expansive.įortunately, very little work was required, since I’ve already done it! This is what happens when you write popular books on physics. ![]() This auspicious event nudged me (a day late, admittedly) to do something I’ve been contemplating for a while now - explain the basic ideas of quantum mechanics the best way I know how, at an accessible level (no equations) but without any frustrating length limitations. Yesterday was Erwin Schrödinger’s birthday, as those of you who actually visit the Google home page would have noticed. ![]()
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