Sunday, March 2, 2008

The Quantum Object

I have been reading a book (L'objet quantique - G.Lochak S.Diner D.Fargue - - Librairie Eyrolles), in French, about the quantum object. This kind of book is not an unusual reading to me, but this time I have been pleasantly surprised to see how the writers were not only very well educated in modern physics, but also able writers, giving a rare clarity to the usually destabilizing sides of quantum mechanics. The book keeps mathematics to a strict minimum, even avoiding the statement of Schrödinger's equation and instead using electronic repartition clouds as a visual aid to the solutions of the equation. Precious insights may be gained from this reading by quantum mechanics enthusiasts.

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