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More copies of this ISBN:Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physicsby Robert Gilmore
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Alice is about to enter a whole new Wonderland. It's Quantumland--a
kind of intellectual amusement park, smaller than an atom, where each
attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. There
she'll meet an Emperor who thinks his new clothes into existence,
dance with the Three Quark Brothers at the Particle MASSquerade,
travel back in time (running into herself), and experience all kinds
of quantum effects. Readers will learn about the Uncertainty
Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive
concepts. Synopsis:You've heard about Alice's adventures through the looking glass. Well, Alice is about to embark on another amazing journey. She's going to shrink again - to the size of a nuclear particle - but she's not going down the rabbit hole. She's headed for Quantumland. And what is Quantumland? Think of it as an intellectual amusement park smaller than an atom, where every ride, game, and attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum mechanics - the often baffling, always intriguing theoretical framework that seems to provide the most accurate explanations of the way things are in the physical world. In this masterful blend of fantasy and science, Robert Gilmore uses the allegory of Alice's travels to make the uncertainty principle, Pauli's principle, high-energy particle physics, and other crucial parts of quantum theory accessible and exciting.
Table of Contents1. Into Quantumland; 2. The Heisenberg Bank; 3. The Mechanic's
Institute; 4. The Copenhagen School; 5. The Fermi-Bose Academy; 6.
Virtual Reality; 7. Atoms in the Void; 8. Castle Rutherford; 9. The
Particle MASSquerade; 10. The Experimental Physics Phun Phair
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