How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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This is an excellent book, despite its quirky, and somewhat cringe-making, style where the author is talking to his dog - and the dog, who is already quite knowledgeable about physics, replies. stars, but given how much fun I've had while also learning new things have pushed it to 4 stars on Goodreads. They aren't correct in my e-book edition, and they probably wouldn't have been correct in every DTB edition—or if they are (which means they must have been corrected for every other edition) why aren't they corrected for the e-book? A complicated yet quite enjoyable book about quantum physics, it follows the interactions and dialogue of a scientist and his dog, their dialog starts the explanation on various topic and their mechanics as, for example, it is explained why the dog cant be on two places at once to cross a three and ambush a squirrel.

But if we thought of objects as abstract bundles of properties, we would find it easier to intuit the world of quantum dynamics. This book makes some serious science concepts easier to grasp and makes me laugh (per conversations with dog).Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner.

Especially the first chapters were very good, after 50% the book focussed more on the weird universe of quantum teleportation and the measurements done in quantum optics, in line with the professional interest of Chad Orzel. Chad Orzel’s book How to Teach [Quantum] Physics to Your Dog is an enjoyable analysis of many of the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. Overall this is definitely recommended to anybody that's interested in a broad discussion of all things relation to quantum physics.I thought you explained the physics well, and I liked your book for these explanations, but I found myself skipping over the animal-metaphors very early on. I think Orzel demands or assumes a level of comfort with math higher than one might expect from the audience that would be drawn to the book’s framing conceit. Still, there is a link to the book, and you will find it in the middle of my blurb under the heading "A message to Chad". I feel that quantum physics, just as relativity theory, cannot be understood at a satisfactory intellectual level by reference to concepts we know.