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It sounds alien and esoteric, but quantum mechanics is very real, and a crucial part of what makes the modern world possible. In Real Quanta, Martijn van Calmthout makes quantum “magic” clearer, an...
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30 January 2018

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr walk into the famous Hotel Métropole and sit down at the author’s table to discuss the state of quantum mechanics today.
Particles that exist in two places at once, consequences that occur without a cause, objects that exist only if you look at them — quantum mechanics proves that all of this is possible, and not just in dark science labs. Look no further than your smartphone or tablet for technology made conceivable by quantum theory.
From quantum computers to “teleporting” data, medicine to photosynthesis and the quantum compass in some migratory birds, Martijn van Calmthout plainly explains — to his readers and to an astounded Einstein and Bohr — how Quantum 2.0 is increasingly part of everyone’s daily life. Rather than being the exceptional domain, Van Calmthout shows how quantum mechanics is actually part of our tangible world, and may even be the very crux of our existence.
Particles that exist in two places at once, consequences that occur without a cause, objects that exist only if you look at them — quantum mechanics proves that all of this is possible, and not just in dark science labs. Look no further than your smartphone or tablet for technology made conceivable by quantum theory.
From quantum computers to “teleporting” data, medicine to photosynthesis and the quantum compass in some migratory birds, Martijn van Calmthout plainly explains — to his readers and to an astounded Einstein and Bohr — how Quantum 2.0 is increasingly part of everyone’s daily life. Rather than being the exceptional domain, Van Calmthout shows how quantum mechanics is actually part of our tangible world, and may even be the very crux of our existence.
Price: $20.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
30 January 2018
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459740495
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / History
A best-fit for scientifically inclined readers.
Martijn van Calmthout is a science journalist for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. He is an expert on Einstein and mad about science. He lives in Amsterdam.
- Foreword by Leo Kouwenhoven
- The Misunderstanding
- Overture Coffee with Einstein and Bohr
- 1 The First Quantum
- 2 Physics for Boys
- Intermezzo Calling the Bluff with Two Slits
- 3 Quanta in a Test Tube
- 4 All Electrons Count
- Intermezzo Majorana Ghosts
- 5 It’s All About Spin
- 6 An Oral Exam with Ghosts
- 7 Spinach and Migratory Birds
- 8 The Everyday Riddle
- Epilogue: The Death of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Glossary
- Sources