Around1900,physicistsstartedtodiscoverparticleslikeelectrons,protons,andneutrons,andwiththesediscoveriesbelievedtheycouldpredicttheinternalbehavioroftheatom.However,oncetheirpredictionswerecomparedtotheresultsofexperimentsintherealworld,itbecameclearthattheprinciplesofclassicalphysicsandmechanicswerefarfromcapableofexplainingphenomenaontheatomicscale.Withthisrealizationcametheadventofquantumphysics,oneofthemostimportantintellectualmovementsinhumanhistory.Today,quantumphysicsiseverywhere:itexplainshowourcomputerswork,howlaserstransmitinformationacrosstheInternet,andallowsscientiststopredictaccuratelythebehaviorofnearlyeveryparticleinnature.Itsapplicationcontinuestobefundamentalintheinvestigationofthemostexpansivequestionsrelatedtoourworldandtheuniverse.However,whilethefieldandprinciplesofquantumphysicsareknowntohavenearlylimitlessapplications,thefundamentalreasonswhythisisthecasearefarlessunderstood.InQuantumPhysics:WhatEveryoneNeedstoKnow,quantumphysicistMichaelG.Raymerdistillsthebasicprinciplesofsuchanabstractfield,andaddressesthemanywaysquantumphysicsisakeyfactorintoday’sscienceandbeyond.Thebooktacklesquestionsasbroadasthemeaningofquantumentanglementandasspecificandtimelyaswhygovernmentsworldwidearespendingbillionsofdollarsdevelopingquantumtechnologyresearch.Raymer’slistoftopicsisdiverse,andshowcasesthesheerrangeofquestionsandideasinwhichquantumphysicsisinvolved.Fromapplicationslikedataencryptionandquantumcomputingtoprinciplesandconceptslike“quantumnonlocality“andHeisenberg’suncertaintyprinciple,QuantumPhysics:WhatEveryoneNeedstoKnowisawide-reachingintroductiontoanearlyubiquitousscientifictopic.
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