Quantum Mechanics

This video is about the stunning and perplexing field of quantum mechanics.

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In Chard Orzel’s amusing book How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, he explains quantum mechanics to his dog Emmy:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your/dp/1416572295

Because quantum mechanics is so fantastically bizarre, the book Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore parodies the tale of Alice in Wonderland with a quantum twist:

http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Quantumland-Allegory-Quantum-Physics/dp/0387914951

Richard Feynman’s thought-provoking and approachable book QED introduces the counterintuitive ideas of light and matter in quantum electrodynamics:

http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691024170

A central idea of quantum mechanics is Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/uncer.html

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