Sunday, 5 July 2015

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore a C.E.R.N.


Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore a C.E.R.N. physicist is an allegory of quantum mechanics told through the adventures of Alice’s explorations of the world of modern physics, with quanta depicted as eccentric characters similar to those in Wonderland, and quantum laws as the nonsensical or counter-intuitive rules governing Carroll’s world.

Read it online here:
http://l-esperimento-piu-bello-della-fisica.bo.imm.cnr.it/didattica/Resources/Alice%20in%20Quantumland_%20An%20Allegory%20of%20Qua%20-%20Robert%20Gilmore.pdf

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4 comments:

  1. Sam Collett5 July 2015 at 22:41

    Read it all, what did you think, both the science in it and the story itself? Brain all satiated hopefully (if only briefly, until the next literary snack)

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  2. Corina Marinescu5 July 2015 at 23:13

    Still have a few more pages to snack, Sam.

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  3. Alex Fung5 July 2015 at 23:35

    Thanks. I've been looking for it without much success.

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  4. G. Thomas Edwards6 July 2015 at 15:36

    Well this looks like a must read...

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