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    Cover of Beyond Weird

    Beyond Weird

    Philip Ball · 2018

    Physics & Cosmology
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2018–2019years
    50% recommend50% neutral

    Mentions per year

    20182019

    What Hacker News says

    1. LucDec 2018
      'Through Two Doors At Once' by Anil Ananthaswamy https://www.amazon.com/Through-Two-Doors-Once-Experiment/dp/...

      'Beyond Weird' by Philip Ball https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Weird-Philip-Ball/dp/184792458...

      There's some overlap between these two books about the quantum world, of course, but I think they're much better than any pop physics books about this subject from a generation ago.

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    2. KSS42Aug 2019
      Physicists do have a problem with it.

      See : https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-problem-with-q...

      Sabine Hossedfelder also discusses it in her book Lost in Math.

      Two books on the subject are reviewed in the Booklab podcast, episode 20:

      http://booklabpodcast.com/booklab-020-what-is-real-and-beyon...

      Featured Books:What is Real? by Adam Becker; and Beyond Weird by Philip Ball.

      Quantum physics has been with us for more than 100 years – but what is it actually telling us about the world?

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