Quantum Mechanic made easy…

I found this plug for a book on Quantum Mechanics and felt that I had to have it. Unfortunately, Amazon shows this book out of stock. I will be trying to get a copy ASAP. Quantum Mechanics is a very tough subject to get a complete understanding of, as is noted below. I am in hope that this book may enlighten me on the subject.

Jim Al-Khalili, author of Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed (Sterling Publishing Co., $25), sometimes throws his hands in the air-”And yet we have seen in the first half of this book how difficult it is to translate what is essentially advanced mathematics into words that make sense”-but for the most part he attacks the subject straight on. He effectively explains everything we do know and, perhaps as important, how we got there, and he does so excitedly-exclamation points abound in this book. Quantum is also richly illustrated and contains numerous short sections, separate from the main story, with graphic explanations of difficult experiments and phenomena, from the double-slit experiment to quantum tunneling.

The best sections come when the author tells you what he really thinks. Al-Khalili, a University of Surrey physicist, belongs to what he calls the “shut up while you calculate” school of theoretical physics. He agrees with Bohr that there’s no point thinking about meaning while working within the very effective mathematics of quantum mechanics. Yet he also wants to understand what those electrons are up to when we’re not looking at them. Al-Khalili doesn’t have the answers-no one does just yet-but he does address the possibilities, leaving the reader in a somewhat more enlightened, certainly more interested, but no less perplexed state.

Source: PopSci.com