How to teach quantum physics to your dog?

In How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, Chad Orzel relates these conversations in which he explains to an eager Emma the basics of quantum physics. Emma interrupts his explanations with just the sort of questions the reader might happen to have. read more

Reading this book is rather like taking a simplified undergraduate lecture in quantum physics, minus the equations, where the lecture plan, summary, reminders of where the lecture is going and questions from the audience are rendered in dog-speak. The approach is quite entertaining. read more

Discussing quantum physics with my dog is useful because it helps me see how to discuss quantum mechanics with humans. Part of learning quantum mechanics is learning to think like a dog. If you can look at the world the way a dog does, as an endless source of surprise and wonder, then quantum mechanics will seem a lot more approachable. read more