Product Description

Alice is about to enter a whole new Wonderland. It's Quantumland--a kind of intellectual amusement park, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect of quantum theory. There she'll meet an Emperor who thinks his new clothes into existence, dance with the Three Quark Brothers at the Particle MASSquerade, travel back in time (running into herself), and experience all kinds of quantum effects. Readers will learn about the Uncertainty Principle, wave functions, the Pauli Principle, and other elusive concepts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53702 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 190 pages

Customer Reviews

Quantum physics made fun
This book manages to carry off the near impossible trick of succeeding on two levels: For those who are already familiar with the science in provides a superbly entertaining pastiche of the original - together with clarification of things we THOUGHT we understood before. On the other side however when used as a means of gently introducing the very non-intuitive ideas of quantum physics to (for example) a school physics class, it manages to convey the basic facts and fundamental strangeness of the quantum world to a group who would have run a mile at the sight of the Schrodinger equation. Brilliant...

Perfect for revision
makes first year quantum physics that much easier to get your head round

I thought this book was great
I am a 15yr old student and didn't really know anything about Quantum Physics - other than that it was supposed to be really difficult, complex and beyond the average person's intelligence. This book taught me quite a lot and I found it interesting(which can't be said for a lot of physics books) and informative. The only problem was that when I got to the last page, there was still more that I didn't really understand - as if there should have been more pages, it inspired me to find out more about the subject as well. I think that this book definetly deserves all five stars.