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Originally posted by teflonian
CSflim: What is wrong with waffling about the "wackiness" of it all? Quantum Mechanics is very weird and its equations allow for some odd-ball effects to happen.
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Yes, I agree. But there is a time and a place. Also many authors of popularisations fall into the trap of getting all mystical, and then leave the actual explaining far far behind.
If you want to get an actual understanding of what quantum mechanics is about I recomend Feynman. If you want to wax philosophical on the possible existence of parallel univeres where anything and everything can happen, then look elsewhere. That is all that I meant.
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For anyone interested in learning of the wackiness of all the modern-physics theories, I would recommend reading either book by Brian Greene. He just recengly released one, "The Fabric of the Cosmos" and I am knee-deep in it. It has been a few years since I read his "the Elegant Universe", and I don't really remember what is the difference between them. Anybody read these two books and can help me remember why anyone should read "the elegant Universe" as opposed to just getting a more or less updated version of the same thing called "The Fabric of the Cosmos"?
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I haven't read either of them (but I certainly plan to), but as far as I know the Elegant Universe is a much harder book to read, and goes into much more depth, where as Fabric of the Cosmos is much more accessible.