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The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen Hardcover – 29 Oct. 2011

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The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science.

But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good?

The bizarre behaviour of the atoms and energy that make up the universe has led to some very woolly pronouncements on the nature of all interconnectedness. Here, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw give us the real science, and reveal the profound theories that allow for concrete, yet astonishing, predictions about the world.

This is our most up-to-date picture of reality.

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272 pages
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English
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Allen Lane
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29 Oct. 2011
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16.2 x 2.3 x 24 cm
ISBN-10

1846144329
ISBN-13

978-1846144325
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A scientific match made in heaven...as breezily a written accessible account of the theory of quantum mechanics as you could wish for - from the Planck constant to the Higgs particle and everything theoretically in between (Observer)

Mindblowing ... what is novel about this attempt is that the writers take an intellectual rather than a historical approach ... it is a surprisingly rich idea that allows the authors to avoid using too much mathematics (Christopher Potter Sunday Times)

[Cox and Forshaw] stand together at the cutting edge of their discipline ... despite their elevated status, both men remain tiggerishly excitable about their subject ... Cox and Forshaw's book is a carefully guided tour through this quantum world ... popularize[s] without dumbing down (Christopher Cook Financial Times)

A thrilling voyage into the subatomic world (The Economist Books of the Year)

With brightness and gusto, the opening chapters deal with the culture shock that thinking about the sub-atomic world entails ...They are good at drawing connections between seemingly esoteric theory and everyday practicalities (Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday)

The rock star of science... In Quantum Universe they do a great job of bringing a difficult subject to life (Hannah Devlin The Times)

Breaks the rules of popular science writing...admirably shies away from dumbing down...the authors' love for their subject-matter shines through the book (The Economist)

Admirably, Cox and Forshaw...treat topics that do not usually show up in popular books...readers will enjoy this engaging, ambitious and creative tour of our quantum universe (David Kaiser The Guardian)

By explaining theories about the world, Cox and Forshaw show that the workings of the universe can be understood by us all (Fanny Blake Woman & Home)

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Brian Cox is a Professor of Particle Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and works at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. He is also a popular presenter on TV and radio.

Jeff Forshaw is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of elementary particles. He was awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal in 1999 for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen Lane; First Edition (29 Oct. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846144329
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846144325
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.2 x 2.3 x 24 cm

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Brian Cox, PhD, is a leading particle physicist and professor at the University of Manchester, as well as a researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. A Royal Society research fellow, professor Cox was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2010. He is the author of Why Does E=MC² and is well known as presenter of the television series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s.
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Robert Manser

A good book, but I do have reservations

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A fascinating topic and it's good to finally see a paperback on QM that doesn't shy away from the detail or pad out explanations purely to fill a book. This is a well thought out and information dense book that rewards slow reading (a good thing I think). I bought this as I felt that my brief covering of QM at University many years ago (I studied Astrophysics, so just did two courses on QM) didn't cover the topic in enough depth to satisfy me.

I do have two criticisms though I'm afraid: a lot of concepts are introduced without explanation (for example quantum numbers, which I was looking forward to understanding better) and requite the reader to continue without a full understanding, and secondly one analogy in particular using clocks is rather challenging and in my opinion more confusing than the mathematical principles it's trying to simplify. Annoyingly, this baffling clocks analogy runs for chapter after chapter! There are some great explanations though, and the section on chemical bonds that I'm reading now is particularly good and well explained.

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Beware if you don't have the background knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2014

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I bought this book after reading "Why does E=mc2?" by the same authors, which I enjoyed very much. Not having a background in maths and/or physics, I found this second book very difficult. I'm not sure whether this is due to the subject matter or the approach taken to it. The authors seem to assume quite a knowledge of physics in their audience (which I do not have), introducing and using terms way before they are ever defined - if they ever are. Equations are introduced, explained and then changed with no explanation, for example, the rewinding of clocks equation is proposed including time and mass. When the equation is used, time and mass are no longer a part of it. I understand that quantum physics is weird, but surely not that weird. The authors spend so much time on proofs and on repeating the clock analogy, that I do not really know what their aim was in writing the book.

I have since read "The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics" by James Kakalios, which was set much more at my level, explaining such things as Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle" and Pauli's "Exclusion Principle" without the maths, and was, for me, a much more enjoyable read.

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The date of publication. Amaozan should publish this date with all Since and Social Science books.

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As I am only half way through this book I am speaking from the enjoyment experienced so far. It is a great book. The two authors are first and foremost very good teachers. I have learned quite an amount so far due to the very clear exposition, even going to explaining the terms used in Equations, for example, the Newton Gravity equation.
I can now write this equation off the top of my head, so , if I wanted to astonish my friends, I could simply write it for them on a napkin. I have gone so far as to write the definitions of each symbol . Thank you authors. I know Brian Cox is one and , not having the book to hand, I apologize that I cannot recall the name of the second author. I will correct that this evening by memorizing it I do not expect to change my mind whilst reading the reminder of this book.
Take care.

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Chris Worth

Valuable for not shying away from maths, but not much fun to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2014

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This book fills a largely empty gap between "pop science" (where books often try hard to avoid using a single equation) and textbooks. It's a brave attempt - after all, physics IS maths, and dodging the equations means dodging the best explanations.

The result is a readable and well-rounded introduction to the concepts of quantum mechanics in sequence, using the same analogies physics students are taught - quantum clocks, sine waves - and with the maths explained along the way, derived - well, not from first principles, but from more familiar places like Maxwell and Newton's equations that most readers will have encountered before.

That said, it's not that well written - a bit florid in places. In addition, there are formatting issues with my Kindle edition that lead to uneven line breaks and spotty justification. So while the book has great value, I didn't enjoy reading it. It did solidify my understanding of the subject though (as an enthusiastic amateur) so deserves four stars.

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