Poke one particle, in the right quantum-mechanical way, and the other particle jumps, instantly, even if it is on the other side of the universe.” “… Particles that have once interacted with each other seem to remain in some sense ‘entangled’ even when they are far apart. And who can resist the use of Spooky in science literature? He cliff-notes in simpler language complicated theories to spare me a WTF glaze-over in chapter one. And holy solar flare, Einstein’s theories are actually in question with discovery of particles traveling faster than light.Ī recent review by WSJ’s John Gribbin, “ The Loose Ends of the Universe“, summarized a book by Scientific American’s George Musser, with a title coined by Einstein to describe entangled particles, “ Spooky Action at a Distance.” I like Gribbin’s reviews. Fermions, bosons, black holes, wormholes, dark matter, dark energy, multiverses … neat stuff … though I’m sure astrophysicists have better descriptors than neat. What makes current quantum theory so much different, are recent discoveries that theoretically explain things we once made-up for fun. So why do I torture myself? Because writing with science fiction elements today, one must be familiar with terms used in quantum theory 101 (or in my case, just “one”). Stephen Hawking’s, “Briefer History of Time”, a rewritten version of his earlier publication so nimrods like me might understand it, still sits partially read on my nightstand, mocking me for being a wuss. Reading Brian Greene’s, “The Elegant Universe”, and Richard Panek’s, “The 4% Universe”, took more than one sitting per chapter.
Physics and advanced mathematics had me shaking during exam time, but that was a hundred years ago. OL2939614W Page_number_confidence 91.67 Pages 218 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211019235902 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 446 Scandate 20211018094005 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780898797077 Tts_version 4.When I read articles and references about the universe and quantum theory, I have to tread lightly (loosely interpreted as, I’m way out of my league). Urn:lcp:worldbuilding0000gill:epub:bdba3453-2102-42ab-be2c-a392caf04c9b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier worldbuilding0000gill Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9f60b70n Invoice 1652 Isbn 0898797071 Lccn 95025826 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9682 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000245 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:16:12 Associated-names Bova, Ben, 1932- Boxid IA40266419 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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