01889cam a2200265 i 4500 381027617 TxAuBib 20190514120000.0 180222s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018008602 9780226558387 26.00 022655838X 26.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Ball, Philip, 1962- Beyond weird [BOOK] : why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different / Philip Ball. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means-and what it doesn't. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge-about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it's us. Provided by publisher. 20190514. Quantum theory Popular works.