JimC;234687 Wrote: > My cousin is a professor and research physicist at Stanford, working on > the SLA. I'm a pretty smart guy by most measures of intelligence and > can hold my own with him on a wide variety of topics. I once asked him > if he could explain QM to me. > > As he is family, he didn't have to be polite. He said he could explain > it, but there was simply no way in hell I could understand it. > > After thinking about that statement, I believed it explained QM in > "layman's terms" about as succinctly as possible. > > > -=> Jim
Feynman's QED is a pleasant afternoon read for anyone with just a little background (say a semester of college physics or a good high school program, and reasonable recall thereof), and it'll get a lot of the main points across rather effectively. You're not going to master quantum field theory without knowing a fair bit of calculus, but you can get a reasonably broad understanding of many of the important concepts in quantum mechanics. It's quite accurate and insightful, unlike many popular science books that just give the reader some buzzwords to spout at cocktail parties. It's also incredibly well-written. -- SumnerH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SumnerH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
