How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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This book tries with best intentions, simplest explanations and concrete examples to explain the this mind-boggling branch of modern physics under the comfy blanket of conversations with a dog. It has a lot of complicated stuff to explain but it does so with everyday examples how explains why the physics of the very small are so weird and different from the normal everyday physics. A complicated yet quite enjoyable book about quantum physics, it follows the interactions and dialogue of a scientist and his dog, their dialog starts the explanation on various topic and their mechanics as, for example, it is explained why the dog cant be on two places at once to cross a three and ambush a squirrel. On quantum teleportation: “You could use it to make a quan­tum ver­sion of the In­ter­net, if you had a cou­ple of quan­tum com­put­ers that you needed to con­nect to­gether. The book alternates between short conversations with Orzel’s dog, an unusually intelligent animal who wants to use quantum mechanics to catch squirrels and rabbits, and Orzel’s straightforward presentation of the science behind the basic concepts.

So the dog has a great idea to split in 2 and go both ways round the tree, that way, the bunny can't escape.On the other hand, the tone is somewhat different from the rest of the book, so this last chapter feels less connected to what comes before. The unique concept behind the book is both its charm and the reason for me to doubt whether or not to give it a slightly lower rating. The material is presented in a way that the reader can get the general idea, and continue on without getting bogged down. If understood well, it may re-define our relationship with language itself, and remind us that words are simply shortcuts that we use to define bundles of properties. I would instead recommend Orzel to anyone who has already read a fair bit about the ideas of modern physics, and would now like to try and understand *why* reality works in such bizarre ways, and how physicists think they know the things they claim to know.

The conversations that Chad Orzel has with his "very good dog" Emmy are mostly cute and original, but the trick eventually did start to wear me down a little bit.

My only problem with Emmy (the dog) was that she's clearly smarter than my dog, who really didn't get a thing out of this book. We have not developed any words that would allow us to capture these dynamics, simply because we never had any need to.

As the complexity builds, the author gives you every opportunity to see how the ideas are interconnected with references to prior mentions (with chapter and page numbers). Si desean una pequeña introducción acerca de los misterios del universo y como los físicos están acercándose a entenderlos y resolverlos, este libro es un excelente apoyo, no deja de ser una obra de divulgación, pero es ameno, divertido, y a ratos incluso enternecedor.An infant would recognise the properties first: there's something bright, it is squishy to the touch, and it feels the same way whichever way I hold it. Orzel has a tendency to state a proposition, then use it later as a proof, which is bad science but probably good science-writing—actually demonstrating the proof would lose a lot of readers. I know that dog of yours is a brain-box, but I must confess I liked your book despite its unique selling point, rather than because of it.