Category: Introduction

Nearly every physicist under the age of 100 will have had, at some point, a quantum physics professor or two. We ourselves have had nine of them along the way. Without their patience and pedagogy, never have been written. We owe a debt of thanks to Bob Delaney, Mohamed Fellah, Tom Gorczyka, Gerald Hardie, Eric…

Quantum vs. Classical Physics, constitutes a prelude to our main feature. Unlike what you’d see in a movie theater, though, it is not a series of coming attractions. It is more like a prequel to the quantum story. Here we will introduce the way that physics worked—and sometimes didn’t work—before the unexpected emergence of quantum physics.…

This explains why quantum physics is such a popular subject for popular scientists. There are devoted to its introduction, and many of these are excellent. Nevertheless, the majority of them present the subject either in exclusively conceptual terms that rely on everyday analogies, or by quickly drilling down to the underlying mathematical basis. We have…

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” This sage advice from Yogi Berra revealed that he was not only a great baseball player and humorist, but also a secret quantum physicist. After all, everyday experience tells us that when you come to a fork in the road, you can go in…