How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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Now I know that most people would rather undergo painful dental surgery than spend their free time reading a book about science, but this book deserves a chance. If you don't mind a talking dog, and frequent references to bunnies, then this is an excellent introduction to quantum physics.

The author uses the literary devise of explaining physics to his dog to make the topic accessible and interesting.Quantum entanglement, quantum teleportation and virtual particles are all explained with the author’s characteristic lighthearted touch. Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner. I don’t think How to Teach Physics to Your Dog is going to make it onto my list of recommended physics reads, though. But the insights of quantum physics tell a story that is simply irreconcilable with this mental picture.

From there the author moves to an explanation of the topic and the experiments used to prove the theory correct. Language has developed to describe things that we need to talk about because they happen in a world accessible to our sensory toolkit. stars, but given how much fun I've had while also learning new things have pushed it to 4 stars on Goodreads.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. And, in fact, near the end of the book, where I pulled this quote, he actually does explain zero-point energy better. We have not developed any words that would allow us to capture these dynamics, simply because we never had any need to. I've been exposed to this subject a thousand times and I keep bashing my head against the physics wall hoping something will sink in yet I still understand very little. 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.

The conversations with the dog, although they actually are occasionally a bit cutesy, are funny and do add information that helps clarify the science presented.One of the things I love to do is browse around in the library looking at whatever catches my attention.