is there a good book on Quantum Physics that is understandable and easy to read?
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I would reccomend a book called "Schroedinger's Cat" and another called "Schoedinger's Kittens".  Maybe they are the same book, but I read the latter.  It is an easy to read piece of literature about Quantum theory.  \n\nMy girlfriend also has encouraged me to read "Mr Tompkins in Paperback" which covers a wide variety of Science topics, including Quantum theory.  \n\nGood luck and have fun.
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You are going to run into some difficulties because mathematicians and physicists have rather different emphases and notations in this area. Most of the math books that cover Lie groups assume a lower level abstract algebra course (which covers finite groups). The best treatment for physicists I have found is 'Symmetries in Physics' by J. P. Elliot and P. G. Dawber.\n\nIf you really want a mathematical treament, you should look into books on differential geometry first (to get a good definition of Lie group) and then check out a book on representation theory for Lie groups.
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Best physics texts ever written (although somewhate difficult) are the "Feynman Lectures on Physics" written by Richard Feynman.  The nobel laureate lectured his intro physics class and eventually transcribed the lectures into a set of three books.
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Yes...thus far, it IS the simplest and best explanation of gravity...quantum mechanics doesn't explain gravity at all.  What is NOW needed is a theory of "everything" that can link relativity to QM so that they're BOTH compatible.
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Personally I liked "Physics and Philosophy" and "Physics and Beyond" by Heisenberg.  The latter is Heisenberg's autobiography, but it has some interesting ideas in it.  I also like a multiple volume set of books called  "The World of Physics: A small library of the literature of physics from antiquity to the present" There are a lot of excerpts dealing with historically important discoveries in physics.  It tends to go somewhat easy on the math too.  More recent popular books are "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene.
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u can consult ur physics book
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Most of these principles are addressed in detail in physics text books.  Perhaps you might try at a local college or high school  library.
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Quantum physics underpins everything, but of course you don't need to go that deeply for many practical purposes. For instance, you would not model the architecture of a building at the level of an electron.\n\nBut quantum mechanics is central to understanding and designing all semiconductor devices (not just the newer, esoteric ones), hard drives (which use quantum tunneling), chemicals that require an understanding of the chemical bond (including modelling shapes of biological molecules in the biotech iindustry).\n\nIt is behind MRI scanning, x-rays, digital cameras (a CCD is a fundamentally quantum device), nuclear energy and weapons technology.\n\nIt is essential to cosmology and understanding the stars.\n\nThe list goes on.\n\nAnd no, it is way beyond the status of a theory.
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The focus in the 21st century for the forefront of physics is understand the connection between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. No question about this. The results could be a string theory, or loop gravity, or something completely different.\n\nAlso up there I think is a better understanding of a property we all know and love: mass. There is a search for the Higgs Boson. We need to find it and study it. Or, if it can't be observed try and determine what that means.\n\nOther challengs include being able to use the EPR phenomena of quantum entanglement to produce the first prototypes of an actual encrypted signal over a reasonable distance.\n\nNanotechnology is another challengs, in how to work those little parts into ways that form mini-computers, and also in ways that allow for various medical uses.
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Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein were debating about quantum theory. By the mid 1930s, Einstein had accepted quantum mechanics as a consistent theory for the statistics of the behavior of atoms. He recognized that it was "the most successful physical theory of our time." This theory, which he had helped to create, could explain nearly all the physical phenomena of the everyday world. Eventually the applications would include transistors, lasers, a new chemistry, and more. Yet Einstein could not accept quantum mechanics as a completed theory, for its mathematics did not describe individual events. Einstein felt that a more basic theory, one that could completely describe how each individual atom behaved, might yet be found. By following the approach of his own general theory of relativity, he hoped to dig deeper than quantum mechanics.
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There is a very large book called "The Handbook of Chemestry and Physics"  This is a very good reference.\n\nAlso, at Barns & Noble there is a forumla sheet called Physics (SparkCharts).  Very helpful.\n\nFinally, look for the Physics for Dummies.  I have found that when tutoring and teaching, the explainations help me to better understand what is happening in terms that I can communicate.\n\nGood luck in your studies.
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for sure.\n\nbible is descriptive.... quantum physics is a snap.\n\naren't you glad..\n\nthat way its cover 11 or 12 diminsions where you only think in 3 or 4.
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Quantum mechanics is fascinating, as Einstein's famous quote that "God does not play dice with the universe" is turned on its head.  The random nature associated with the inner workings of atoms and quarks is astonishing when one considers that despite all of the unpredictability of subatomic activity, things in the macroscopic world follow predictable patterns that seem to defy common sense.
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For recent physics and maths preprints, try here\n\nhttp://lanl.arxiv.org/\n\nor one of it's mirror sites
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“…the possibility of any occurrence happening to anything at any time…” I think you’re referring to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics but you’re putting the popular “new-age” spin on it. Quantum theory outlines the exchange of energy between the four fundamental forces and explains the interactions of these quanta with atomic and subatomic particles. Certain counterintuitive observations from the quantum world, or "quantum paradoxes," can be removed by invoking the many-worlds interpretation but it is still just an interpretation and it doesn’t really allow anything to happen anywhere at anytime. If you’d like a great introduction to this, try reading The Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker.\n\nScientific theories will never capture God, they explain the phenomenological world not the spirit; quantum physics is science not theology. If you look for science in God, you’re looking in the wrong place. If you look for God in science, you’ll miss the whole thing.
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maybe this can help\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Learning
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Quantum Physics is the Science and Study of Atomic Particles, the most basic of which is the Electron, the Proton and the Neutron, and the futher study of the constituent parts of those particles, Quarks, Muons, Gluons, etc etc etc.\n\nThe Standard Model is the best way to learn these particles. There is (apparently) no rhyme or reason as to the why's and wherefor's of the Standard Model - meaning that nobody knows WHY the weights are what they are, nobody knows why the numbers shake out the way they do and the particles organize themselves the way they do - this is one of the last great mysteries of Physics that modern M-Theory (String or SuperString Theory) is attempting to answer.\n\nHere's a good link or three\n\nOf them all, I would recommend the Wiki as a great place to start... Take notes, it's fairly complex, you can do it!