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    Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
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    Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics

    Written by Amir D. Aczel

    Narrated by Henry Leyva

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    Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them?  Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.

    Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to complete Einstein's work. With accesible language and a highly entertaining tone, Amir Aczel shows us a world where the improbable-from unbreakable codes to teleportation-becomes possible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2002
    ISBN9780739301531
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    Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
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    Amir D. Aczel

    Amir D. Aczel is the bestselling author of ten books, including Entanglement, The Riddle of the Compass, The Mystery of the Aleph, and Fermat's Last Theorem. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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    • 5/5
      This was my introduction to quantum physics. It's always the first book I think of rereading and suggesting to friends for learning about the topic.
    • 4/5
      This is a subject that I've spent some time reading up on. Unfortunately, I'm not enough of an expert to be able to follow the logic of this book without some diagrams. And for some reason, diagrams aren't available for audiobooks :)
    • 5/5
      This was great I was put off by 3 stars but found it graspable
    • 5/5
      Comprehensive, informative and a rewarding book. Readers will need atleast unawareness of some advanced mathematics and physics. Enjoy!
    • 4/5
      Great material, but less history and more science would have been nice :-)
    • 3/5
      A decent book on Entanglement. Suffers from my pet peeve in popular science books -- which is repeating lots of material you have read over and over again. You would think that someone coming to a book on Entanglement would have read a few other accounts of quantum mechanics before and doesn't need to re-read the familiar history starting from the Greeks through Planck and Bohr, Heisenberg and the rest of the early pioneers. Or that someone who wants an introduction to quantum mechanics would not want to start with a book that focuses on one aspect. The book also suffers from too much biography, which would be fine if it were not for the fact that it features 20 scientists -- so that mini-biographies of each weigh down the explication.

      The second half is interesting, including both theoretical work like Bell's theorem and the experimental tests of it. You can never really understand this material without going through the actual physics (and even then you can't actually understand it), but the shortness of the explication made one suffer a little more than normal in a book of this sort. Plus there was a lot less on applications of entanglement, like encryption, than I might have liked.
    • 4/5
      Accessible overview of the debate between Einstein and Bohr as to the nature of light, electrons, atoms, etc, and many of the recent experiments that reveal the mysterious world of the very small. Is it a wave? Is it a particle? Is it both? How does a particle go through two slits at a time? How do entangled particles "know" what has been measured with its partner so it can "change" accordingly? Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". Can we never know "where" a particle is except as a probability? Einstein said "God doesn't play dice." The work of John Bell, Abner Shimony, Greenberger, Horne, Zelinger, Gisin and more are summarized along with fascinating biographical details. Amir Aczel is obviously given much respect because of his own physics credentials, and his interviews reveal a world of research being conducted as a hobby, outside normal work, by individuals who have atypically broad backgrounds. An entertaining glimpse, but for the gory mathematical details you will need to look/read/struggle further. I'm left feeling that all the experiments reveal is that we don't really understand the nature of light, and if we don't honor Einstein's plea for true understanding, all we are left with is a way to calculate. The story is still unfolding...

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      My fourth Aczel book and so far the best. Entanglement is one of the better popular accounts of quantum mechanics I've read. As the title suggests, it focuses on the topic of quantum entanglement, one of the central concepts of quantum mechanics.Aczel traces the history of quantum mechanics through the lives and careers of its early players, and then introduces the concept of entanglement -- the idea that two quantum mechanical particle created during the same process, separated by even thousands of light years in distance, are inextricably linked through their probability wave function and that the measurement of one instantaneously determines the state of the other. This "spooky action at a distance" bugged Einstein and kept him from embracing the quantum theories that he was instrumental in helping to create. Over the past century, there has been active and lively research and debate over the nature of quantum mechanics and the properties and parameters of entanglement, and Aczel does a very good job of bringing such an esoteric topic down to the level of the advanced layperson and highlighting the personalities involved.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to complete Einstein's work. With accesible language and a highly entertaining tone, Amir Aczel shows us a world where the improbable—from unbreakable codes to teleportation—becomes possible.
    • 4/5
      A decent book on Entanglement. Suffers from my pet peeve in popular science books -- which is repeating lots of material you have read over and over again. You would think that someone coming to a book on Entanglement would have read a few other accounts of quantum mechanics before and doesn't need to re-read the familiar history starting from the Greeks through Planck and Bohr, Heisenberg and the rest of the early pioneers. Or that someone who wants an introduction to quantum mechanics would not want to start with a book that focuses on one aspect. The book also suffers from too much biography, which would be fine if it were not for the fact that it features 20+ scientists -- so that mini-biographies of each weigh down the explication.The second half is interesting, including both theoretical work like Bell's theorem and the experimental tests of it. You can never really understand this material without going through the actual physics (and even then you can't actually understand it), but the shortness of the explication made one suffer a little more than normal in a book of this sort. Plus there was a lot less on applications of entanglement, like encryption, than I might have liked.