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Chad Orzel's German shepherd, Emmy, trots up, demanding to know where her bone is. "I have no idea where your bone is," Orzel says, "but I can tell you exactly how fast it's moving."
The joke refers to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that the less precisely we know a particle's position, the more accurately we know its momentum, and vice versa. Emmy is not amused.
Talking quantum physics with a dog may seem a tad eccentric, but Orzel's new book is a true delight to read. Orzel, a blogger and physics professor at Union College in New York, explains all the weird and wonderful features of the quantum world through conversations with Emmy - and even though it's gimmicky, it works.
"Dogs come to quantum physics in a better position than most humans,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Orzel writes. indeed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for most dogs, the spontaneous generation of treats would be vindication - they always expect treats to appear at any moment for no obvious reason."
One can't help but think that Orzel has a point. But don't let Orzel's laid back nature or clever sense of humor fool you - he is explaining some pretty serious stuff. A level-headed and confident guide, he takes Emmy (and the reader) through everything from wave-particle duality and superpositions to quantum tunneling and the so-called "many worlds" interpretation ("many worlds, many treats").
I particularly enjoyed his section on the quantum Zeno effect, which is often neglected in popular books on quantum physics. The Zeno effect allows an observer to detect an object without it ever having to absorb a single photon of light - "measuring without looking", as Orzel puts it.
Most of all, I appreciated Orzel's concluding chapter,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in which he explains to Emmy (and the rest of us) how to spot a hidden quantum agenda. The weirdness of quantum mechanics and the public's general lack of scientific understanding has sown fertile ground for crackpots and scam artists to misuse quantum lingo to make outrageous claims.
One by one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Orzel debunks such claims, from the use of zero-point energy to power the world to the idea that quantum entanglement is the basis of homeopathy.
It's remarkable that such a highly readable book is able to say both what quantum mechanics is and what it isn't. Someone ought to give this guy a treat.
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
Long live Polemos!! Dullness and uniformity should be opposed wherever they hide. Anyone who accepts modern science without question is insane. 13.7 billiion years after hydrogen erupted out of the void, out of the explosion tumble complex sparks of energy. This life, through us, contemplates the universe and the universe becomes self-aware. This is science's creation story, why are people so quick to dismiss Polemos? Haven't stranger things happened already to create him/her?
"It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres" Nietzsche
"It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres" --Nietzsche
Nietzsche constructed an absolute when he should have been speaking for himself. Not very Socratic of him. The Great Mind should have been able to imagine such a thing, and -- had he been sufficiently schizoid (to use the old term) -- he could have managed it himself. We suspect he was forced to take that position in order to remain consistent with the rest of his World Architecture.
Withstanding both Messrs Nietzsche and Polemos, the Standard Model stands on shaky ground outside the rarified realm of the submicroscopic: To the point that "scientists" and mathematicians argue amongst themselves like the True Believers of religions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], having only the barest of observations to justify Everest-sized theories. (Pity, that.)
As such, we very much doubt the value of a book that perpetuates highly disputed aspects of the Standard Model, no matter how cute the setting, or plain the language. We do appreciate his call to vigilance against Quantum Agendas; however, we don't believe he has drawn his Line of Skepticism in the proper place.
Some of these comments make sense to me, some seem a bit dodgy and quoting Nietzsche to give weight to one's argument seems a tad naive. Sounds like the book is worth a read anyway. I have three dogs of whom I know where one is at at given moment and I know the momentum of the second at any given moment. The third dog doesn't like to be looked at as she is a free spirit and doesn't like to be observed and so defined by lesser beings who don't understand quantum theory. I think I have three dogs? Her food is always eaten. By the way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what is a `Polemos' anyway? From the previous comments in this thread it sounds like some sort of narcisism of the quark.
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