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    Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)
    Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)
    Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)
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    Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)

    By Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub

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    An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanics

    Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics--entanglement: what it is, what it means, and what you can do with it.

    Measure two entangled particles separately, and the outcomes are totally random. But compare the outcomes, and the particles seem as if they are instantaneously influencing each other at a distance—even if they are light-years apart. This, in a nutshell, is entanglement, and if it seems weird, then this book is for you. Totally Random is a graphic experiential narrative that unpacks the deep and insidious significance of the curious correlation between entangled particles to deliver a gut-feel glimpse of a world that is not what it seems. See for yourself how entanglement has led some of the greatest thinkers of our time to talk about crazy-sounding stuff like faster-than-light signaling, many worlds, and cats that are both dead and alive. Find out why it remains one of science's most paradigm-shaking discoveries. Join Niels Bohr's therapy session with the likes of Einstein, Schrödinger, and other luminaries and let go of your commonsense notion of how the world works. Use your new understanding of entanglement to do the seemingly impossible, like beat the odds in the quantum casino, or quantum encrypt a message to evade the Sphinx's all-seeing eye. But look out, or you might just get teleported back to the beginning of the book!

    A fresh and subversive look at our quantum world with some seriously funny stuff, Totally Random delivers a real understanding of entanglement that will completely change the way you think about the nature of physical reality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9781400890392
    Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)

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