Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics by Amir D. Aczel
253 pages
Started: 21 March 2005
Finished: 25 June 2005
A history of the strangest proof of quantum physics, this book follows the lives of different quantum physicists as they build on each other’s works, try to contradict each other, and work together. Less a book about quantum physics, and more a book about the men who studied it and developed it, it was interesting to see just what type of man would do that. Apparently there is no specific type. They were as different as different could be. They worked together, and even when they disagreed it only helped to further their work as they tried to proof each other wrong. Between mathematical proofs, thought experiments, and actual physical experiments, ultimately Einstein is proved wrong and the quantum theory holds, particles can be inexplicably linked, much the way the lives of the physicists were.
This rates a nine for the fascination of it.
Rating: 9
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Brett L. Dennis
