Donald B. Grey - Quantum Physics for Beginners Who Flunked Math and Science--Quantum Mechanics and Physics Made Easy Guide In Plain Simple English

Quantum Physics for Beginners Who Flunked Math and Science

Quantum Mechanics and Physics Made Easy Guide in Plain Simple English

Donald B. Grey

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Introduction

L ook again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived thereon a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. (Sagan, 1994).

The pale blue dot has always been our home, but we have never understood it, its place in the Universe, or the magic that makes it ticknot as well as we do today.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, we had managed to be quite smart about our discoveries. We understood the order of things in the Universean order that made sense and to which we could relate to.

And then, somewhat out of the blue, came a theory that was wilder than our imagination, crazier than our most peculiar thoughts, and more misunderstood than the beginning of life in the Universe: Quantum mechanics.

As if to show us all that were not the kings of our Universe and that we might, after all, know nothing about everything that surrounds us, quantum theory lay down a long list of questions and told us: Guys, I can help you answer these, but you will first have to solve the riddle .

Arrogant as we usually are, we thought we had it all figured out. We learned that the small world was nothing like the big one and that at the most granular levels of the Universe, strangeness was at home. Gone was the logic and the order of things in the Universe, which we took so much pride in just a few years before. Gone was the peaceful sleep of a bunch of bright minds that held our hands throughout the beginning of the 20th century.

Culturally, socially, politically, economically, and even from an artistic point of view, we were making somewhat of a quantum leap into a new world. Bear in mind here: Quantum leap is to be understood in its metaphorical sense, not the scientific one we will discuss later on in the book.

Scientifically, we are jumping into our future without even realizing what is going on, where we are going, and how we came to wake up this way.

Thanks to a handful of brilliant minds in physics, this jump was much smoother than it would have been otherwisebecause what quantum theory revealed was unsettling and weird as if to laugh in our face for ever having thought we had it all figured out.

Today, about one century later, from the moment the quantum theory was first formulated, we still dont know much about it. We have the groundwork done by names like Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Albert Einstein, and many others that have come since them. But we still lack the fundamental information that would finally allow us to say: Yes, we got it right this time around.

Quantum physics is one of the oddest and most fascinating branches of science. Somewhat at the confluence between pure science (it doesnt get more science-y than physics, right?) and mysterious spirituality, quantum mechanics is poorly understood across the entire board.