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snugglekittyI've been reading bits and pieces of this book, Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experience in Quantum Reality, which is principally about psychic phenomena. It has a brief chapter on quantum theory, but I'm pretty sure I didn't understand. In particular, the thing about the three boxes* - the book said that when you understand it, it makes your stomach drop. Well then, I'm pretty sure I didn't understand it. While I recognize that this experience may be common to the field, I'm hoping to get suggestions of things I might try to at least refine my grasp of my incomprehension.
In short - can you recommend a book, or books, about quantum theory? The ideal text will be readable, without the help of a professor, to someone who has never taken a physics class in her whole life. (That would be me.) Yes, I was able to get through A Brief History of the Universe if that helps. What I really want is The Cartoon Guide to Quantum Theory or Quantum Theory for Dummies but apparently neither of those books have been written, which I think is shameful.
*There are three boxes. One of them shoots entangled particles in two different directions, into two more boxes. Each of the other two boxes has two lights, one of which is red and the other green, and three settings. When you shoot entangled particles into them, the lights are the same color 55.5% of the time instead of 50% of the time, and apparently that should blow all of our minds. If you don't know what I'm talking about, well, I didn't get it either.
In short - can you recommend a book, or books, about quantum theory? The ideal text will be readable, without the help of a professor, to someone who has never taken a physics class in her whole life. (That would be me.) Yes, I was able to get through A Brief History of the Universe if that helps. What I really want is The Cartoon Guide to Quantum Theory or Quantum Theory for Dummies but apparently neither of those books have been written, which I think is shameful.
*There are three boxes. One of them shoots entangled particles in two different directions, into two more boxes. Each of the other two boxes has two lights, one of which is red and the other green, and three settings. When you shoot entangled particles into them, the lights are the same color 55.5% of the time instead of 50% of the time, and apparently that should blow all of our minds. If you don't know what I'm talking about, well, I didn't get it either.
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Date: 2007-10-09 10:08 pm (UTC)That sounds interesting and I'd like to understand it, but the web was suprisingly unhelpful.