Through Two Doors at Once

Name: Through Two Doors at Once
Brand: Duckworth
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ISBN 9780715654934 Published 16 March 2023

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The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics.

How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act of looking bring it into reality? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and our perceivable world begins?

Many of science's greatest minds - including Thomas Young, Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman - have grappled with the questions embodied in the simple yet elusive 'double-slit' experiment in order to understand the fabric of our universe. With his extraordinary gift for making the complicated comprehensible, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed, to reveal the answers.

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780715654934
Published: 16 March 2023
Pages: 304
Duration
Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
Genre: Popular Science
Imprint: Duckworth

Reviews

'A fascinating read and a must for anyone who would like to find out the latest experimental advances made in this most fundamental of quantum experiments'

Physics World

‘Offers beginners the tools they need to seriously engage with the philosophical questions that likely drew them to quantum mechanics’

Science

‘Cleverly comes at quantum physics from a different direction... An excellent addition to the “Quantum physics for the rest of us” shelf’

Brian Clegg

‘Simply an outstanding exploration of the double slit experiment and what makes it so weird’

Forbes

About the author

Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former deputy news editor and staff writer at New Scientist. He has also written for Nature, Scientific American, Discover, Quanta and the Literary Review. He won the Book of the Year award from Physics World (2010), the best investigative journalism award from the Association of British Science Writers (2013) and was longlisted for the Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2016). He is currently a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

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