Chasing Schrödinger's Cat

John Gribbin, a very successful science writer: He brings the surprising strangeness of quantum theory into our lives and makes it thinkable. He resorts to analogies from the everyday world, but at the same time he points out the inadequacy and even misleading of these analogies in the subatomic world. For example, he is trying to rid our minds of "pictures" such as electron orbits that the Bohr atomic model, which is still taught in schools, is engraved in our minds. The author, who starts the story of quantum from the early years of the 20th century, when it was discovered that light was both a particle and a wave, explains what kind of prejudices and with what struggle it was discovered that electrons have the same property, the widely accepted Copenhagen interpretation and the "Parallel Universes" interpretation, which has also inspired science fiction. He explains it in one language.
The book can also be read as an mind-expanding study of the history of science: On the one hand, this book contains humane stories of scientists who were deeply confused at various stages of the theory and became embittered because they were not appreciated.



Number of Pages: 296

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2005

Number of Pages: 296

Language Turkish