How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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Each chapter starts with a conversation between the author and his dog Emmy about a particular topic. What happens to the ultra-fundamental human concept of countability when we deal with entangled states?

Well, after that, it breaks into super heavy reading about physics and how the dog would need to go so slow that it would take him longer than the universe's existance to seperate and refract around the tree.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. Later on, the infant learns to refer to this bundle of properties by using a shortcut phonetic code.

The conversations that Chad Orzel has with his "very good dog" Emmy are mostly cute and original, but the trick eventually did start to wear me down a little bit.

It's particularly strange, because this e-book had the best footnoting of any e-book I've ever read, but it couldn't do page references. I liked his explanation of that, as well as his explanations of the Copenhagen interpretation versus the many worlds theory. 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. I feel that quantum physics, just as relativity theory, cannot be understood at a satisfactory intellectual level by reference to concepts we know.

For instance, " Back in chapter 2, we saw that the wave nature of matter gives rise to zero-point energy…" Well, no, we didn't. To persuade Chad that she should be allowed to choose both hands she gives him the example of Schrodinger's cat, or in her case Schrodinger's dog. Anybody who was forced by their physics teacher at school to comment on the way that iron filings orientate when brought into proximity with a magnet knows what the classical interpretation of a field is. Quantum mechanics is never an easy topic for me, and I had to re-read pages occasionally and work my way through the concepts. In this witty and informative book, Orzel and Emmy - the talking dog - discuss the key theories of Quantum Physics and its fascinating history.

Still, there is a link to the book, and you will find it in the middle of my blurb under the heading "A message to Chad". Orzel frames each chapter within a conversation with his dog, Emmy, grounded in the context of something a dog would do, like hunt bunnies or eat treats.