Beyond Weird

Beyond Weird by Philip Ball. Quantum Mechanics for lay people which I found very accessible. It doesn’t require prior knowledge of quantum mechanics but it does try to clarify where the popular notions of entanglement, superposition, quantum teleportation come from. My main takeway is that quantum mechanics is a mathematical theory (abstraction) that exists without necessarily having an explicit representation in reality, which is hard to be satisfied with given it does predict a lot of real-world observations.

This entry was parsed from an older retrospective post.