How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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I am aware that in my own review, I have done the same, and introduced the metaphors of 'fog' and 'schizophrenic' to capture the behaviour of particles. If you don't mind a talking dog, and frequent references to bunnies, then this is an excellent introduction to quantum physics. When adopted from the shelter by physics professor Chad Orzel, she becomes immediately fascinated by his work. I have started to think about particles as a kind of non-local 'fog' that is spread out across the entire universe, with different densities at different, specific, spacetime locations. If you’re really into quantum mechanics and learn about it but you have little or no knowledge of the concept, you will definitely enjoy this but you have to prepare yourself for some hard and heavy-duty reading, it took me almost two months to complete this little compact book.

Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner. My only problem with Emmy (the dog) was that she's clearly smarter than my dog, who really didn't get a thing out of this book. As written, it keeps citing page numbers of previously mentioned theorems and experiments: but they refer to a page number in some particular dead-tree-book edition.Readers who've shied away from popular treatments of physics in the past may find his cheerful discussion a real treat. This book tries with best intentions, simplest explanations and concrete examples to explain the this mind-boggling branch of modern physics under the comfy blanket of conversations with a dog. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is Yet Another Pop Sci look at quantum mechanics, albeit one from a more technical than, say, historical perspective.

If you ever wanted to get a glimpse at what it like to be as smart as a rocket scientist, or have any curiosity about particles and waves, give this book a try.Maybe a dog person would find Chad Orzel’s attempts to talk quantum mechanics in the language of a pet and her owner more endearing. Overall this is definitely recommended to anybody that's interested in a broad discussion of all things relation to quantum physics. We have not developed any words that would allow us to capture these dynamics, simply because we never had any need to. A dog won't find dropped food on the same block every day, and a photon won't interact with a molecule in the same part of the interferometer every time. I must admit that I cannot say I truly understand all the information presented in the book, but I read it with pleasure anyway.