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Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such as neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or "coherent" bundles of energy called "quanta" that (like everything else) obey certain rules. In the case of the quantum, these rules are called "quantum physics." This is a book about quanta and their unexpected, some would say peculiar, behavior--tales, if you will, of the quantum.
The quantum has developed the reputation of being capricious, bewildering, even impossible to understand. The peculiar habits of quanta are certainly not what we would have expected to find at the foundation of physical reality, but these habits are not necessarily bewildering and not at all impossible or paradoxical. This book explains those habits--the quantum rules--in everyday language, without mathematics or unnecessary technicalities. While most popular books about quantum physics follow the topic's scientific history from 1900 to today, this book follows the phenomena: wave-particle duality, fundamental randomness, quantum states, superpositions (being in two places at once), entanglement, non-locality, Schrodinger's cat, and quantum jumps, and presents the history and the scientists only to the extent that they illuminate the phenomena.
- Sales Rank: #2001586 in Books
- Published on: 2017-01-02
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
About the Author
Art Hobson is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he continues to keep a campus office and remains quite active in research.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A first rate book
By greend@newschool.edu
This book is an excellent introduction to quantum physics for the intelligent reader without extensive physics or math background. It is one of very few which develops the ideas from a conceptually, coherent and consistent viewpoint, and is, at the same time, clearly and engagingly written. It tells a good story.
But physics students would benefit enormously from reading it also, because while the standard quantum texts tell you how to manipulate quantum equations and solve problems, most never take the time or trouble to tell the student exactly what it is they are manipulating...what quanta are. This book both carefully explains the fundamental objects of quantum mechanics and elucidates their workings and strange properties, the central ones being superposition and entanglement.
I wish this book had been available for my History of Science classes.
Tales Of The Quantum is also very unusual in that it takes the stance that many of the “paradoxes” and “mysteries” of QM really resolve quite well, if one adopts the quantum field model consistently, e.g. there is no imponderable wave-particle duality if waves are the underlying reality and particles are a secondary effect of the way they interact.
Hobson makes a very good case that the wave model is more sensible and consistent...and gives real experimental evidence to back it up...my favorite example being that an accelerating observer will measure a particle present in an area that a non accelerating observer will not. Both observers register matter waves in the area, so if particles are bedrock reality how can one observer not have them? Good question, and it illustrates Hobson’s compelling arguments on this issue. He makes the case that the prevalence of the particle view was an historical accident.
The quality of explanation is notable throughout, after reading the section “what is a quantum state”, I felt I understood it for the first time, even though I’ve read quite a few QM books. Previously quantum states were just arbitrarily applied numbers to me. (The only exception to the explanational thoroughness was a few pages detailing the standard model of particle physics, which was too condensed, but a thorough background here would take several hundred pages at least).
Hobson also takes the philosophical issues of the subject straight on, (such questions as are quanta and their states real), and provides a well thought out framework, which takes the ideas seriously, but shows some of them are resolvable. He is particularly clear on why the pop science literature claim of the connection between quantum reality and Human consciousness has no foundation in the science.
Philosophy students could rid themselves of many false claims (our mind creates reality etc.) By reading this book which makes very clear what science does, and does not, say about such perennial issues. Hobson is a realist, but a quantum realist, and could make many a convert to that view.
So, The book is not only worthwhile for the curious non-scientist, physics, and philosophy student alike, but is also an important contribution in resolving many long standing conceptual issues in the field.
I highly recommend it to all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great work of Scietific Literacy for our world
By Amazon Customer
I am familiar with several editions of Physics text book by Art Hobson and I owe him a lot of gratitude for imparting a deep knowledge of Concepts and Connections of Quantum Physics. I bought so far 3 copies of "The Tales of Quantum" and quickly read one time. I expect to read more deeply again. It is even easier to understand than his text book for liberal arts students. Any one interested to learn the fundamental concepts of Quantum Physics but do not have the math back ground would appreciate this important addition to scientific literacy. Art Hobson has dedicated his entire life to improving scientific literacy for Americans and world over making modern physics easy for common man (common man in my opinion is who has at least high school level of general literacy but not necessarily about Quantum). This book is very much needed under the current situation as all kinds of charlatans/creationists purporting to be scientists confuse the public about Quantum ideas for example Deepak Chopra and many other pseudo scientists. They try to confuse human consciousness with Quantum Physics Concepts. Only scientifically literate public in democratic free countries like US can make good decisions by knowing the real science. Our economy now 30% or more directly related to the Concepts of Quantum Physics. Now still a slight majority of Americans believe in Creationism. Only antidote for this sorry state of affair is Scientific Literacy and promoting works by Art Hobson like teachers. In this regard this book gives a deep knowledge about the most valid scientific theory of today which was completed by the great scientists of 20th century and still under active development. Art Hobson is honest in his treatment of the subject and gives scientific reasoning in a easily understandable manner.
However I have to give a caution. Several years ago I bought about 100 copies of "Quantum Physics for Poets" by Leon Lederman and Chris Hill and gave away most of the copies to my class mates who went to college in the 60s. It appears most of them did not read. One professor class mate of mine told me he read it but took many months at the pace he read but he was shocked to understand quantum reality. Great Dane Niels Bohr or some one said that if you are not shocked by Quantum Physics you have not understood it. For the people who never knew such a science and are shocked after learning it, I assume Art Hobson would be extremely happy. To me the principles of Quantum, is a life changing knowledge and Art Hobson's book, is one of the most important books for the public scientific literacy.
Art Hobson clearly identifies issues of controversy and misunderstanding of the fundamental concepts of Quantum world and the readers would be enlightened and would feel that they have understood the great secret of the microscopic world and would be able to be happy knowing they have learnt a great lesson of science. It is important to learn Quantum before one exits this world. Who ever reads this book would be more knowledgeable in this subject than Albert Einstein even though one may not have Einstein's mind. I don't mean to say there is nothing more exciting to be discovered. We only become more humbled knowing that we are only a very small insignificant part of this universe and most of it is made up stuff we don't know what it is and the best of our young people in the world are still working on it.
I strongly recommend and commend the author for great service to the humanity by writing this important book and Oxford U P for publishing it.
Bapu
Chicago 02/25/2017
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great book!
By Andrew
A wonderful read for anyone that is in pursuit of understanding the quantum.
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