The author in the end also touches upon the theory of supersymmetry which is the latest field under study within the quantum community and deals with unifying matter (particles like electrons,protons, quarks etc) and force (the bosons like photons etc). The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. However, it also means that the reader is sometimes left feeling short-changed, as we are provided with a key insight or result from the theory without having the maths to build up to this result and see how it was derived. Quantum mechanics is one of the key foundations of undergraduate degrees in Physics and indeed Chemistry, so having a basic conception of the essence of the theory is a great tool to have before you come to university.

He takes us step-by-step into an ever more bizarre and fascinating place—requiring only that we approach it with an open mind. He believes that parallel worlds do exist but not the way in which we imagine (in most of the sci-fiction books) where we can hop between the alternate universes but all the alternate universes according to quantum theory branch out based on the choices that the observer encounters. one of the anecdotes told and retold about Niels Bohr is that when someone came to him with a wild idea purporting to resolve one of the puzzles of quantum theory in the 1920’s he replied, “Your theory is crazy. The only negative is that often I'd find myself struggling to comprehend certain analogies as the audiobook format is constrained to text only, as opposed to the paperback version of this book that has quite a few illustrations that help quite a lot.this book explains generally the perplexing, mind-boggling, paradoxical principles of quantum physics while relating the history of discoveries leading up to and through it, including the discovery of the X-Ray. after extended listening periods, I would lapse into delusions where I was suddenly listening to The Talented Mr. The last 1/3 of the book were a series of explanations of experiments used to prove some of the theorems which were fascinating. Without it, we'd have no nuclear power or nuclear bombs, no lasers, no TV, no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering—at all.

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.

This book does have a lot of good information and does explain some aspects of quantum mechanics very well for someone with little experience, but he kind of unravels at the end. I would recommend Brian Greene, but he always wants to throw a plug in for the wonders of string theory and how it will solve EVERY SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM EVER; IT WILL EVEN CURE CANCER AND OBESITY!

Gribbin uses his excellent understanding of the essence of quantum mechanics to produce a book that is equal parts fascinating and educational. According to the first of them, Copenhagen interpretations, Chance plays the chancellor or Chairman. It was the first popular book about quantum physics I've read and I think I was lucky to start with it.The complex concepts are explained effectively and with care towards not diluting the essential core physical principles down to nothing in the name of simplification and accessibility.

This book does a great job at stripping this away to give a written account of the incredible insights from the subject. The third part probes some of the deeper mysteries, possibilities and paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Physics is about probing into the unknown and what we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible straitjacket.Gribbin reveals the concepts very slowly, which might not be a bad thing, so this may seem a bit tedious at first. Gribbin repudiated The Jupiter Effect in the July 17, 1980, issue of New Scientist magazine in which he stated that he had been "too clever by half". It turns out to be a slow read, because it gives you examples, and then to fully understand the examples you find yourself working out the aspects of it. In 1974, Gribbin published, along with Stephen Plagemann, a book titled The Jupiter Effect, that predicted that the alignment of the planets in quadrant on one side of the Sun on March 10, 1982 would cause gravitational effects that would trigger earthquakes in the San Andreas fault, possibly wiping out Los Angeles and its suburbs.