Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

by Robert Gilmore

Alice in Quantumland is Robert Gilmore's amazing fantasy ride through the landscape of quantum physics - the interrelated group of theories on the nature of subatomic particles that modern scientists use to explain the physical universe. Through the allegory of Alice's adventures and encounters, Gilmore makes the essential features of the quantum world clear and accessible. It is a thrilling introduction to some essential, often difficult-to-grasp concepts about the world we inhabit.

Genres: Science, Physics, Nonfiction, Ebooks, Mathematics, Philosophy, Popular Science

184 pages, Hardcover

First published February 14, 1994

Reviews

[Noor Tareq · Rating 3 out of 5]

صدقا احببت هذه النسخة من أليس جدا ، فأنا لا استمتع بقراءة أليس في بلاد العجائب .
ببساطة و سلاسة استطاع الكاتب تبسيط فيزياء الكم ، و شرحها بطريقة مسلية ترسخ في المخ .
فبين السعات ، و مبدأ باولي ، و الالكترونات و الفوتونات ، كنت في عالم من السعادة ، احب الفيزياء ، و احترم من يسعى الى تبسيطها .
لكن كان هناك سرد و تفاصيل في بعض الاجزاء لا داعي لها ، و تجعل القارئ يضيع و يضطرب .

[Juan Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a well written & straightforward allegory for an introduction to the basics of Quantum Physics/Mechanics. I think it's helpful to understand at least a little about the subject because if you're interested in books written about the Universe, different aspects of this topic tend to come up fairly often. It is very odd because of the way things work in such a counter-intuitive manner, yet experimentation agrees with it's predictions. It goes into protons, electrons, quarks, spin, Pauli Exclusion Principle, Heisenberg Uncertainty principle & much more. It explains these concepts in a very straightforward manner which is made very easy with the use of the allegory. I recommend it for anyone who is interested in the subject & needs a good starting point.

[أمَـان · Rating 4 out of 5]

فكرة إسقاط الرواية الشهيرة -أليس في بلاد العجائب- على عالم الفيزياء لا زالت تبهرني حتى بعد انتهائي من الكتاب. وبالتحديد منبهرة لأنها وُظِّفَت جيدًا
لا تتوقّع من الكتاب أي جانب أدبي مبهر، أصلًا الكتاب عبارة عن -وفقط عن- دروس فيزياء :D
مش كل الفصول على نفس الدرجة من السلاسة والمتعة، بعضها جاءت مشوِّشة ومعقّدة أكثر من الفصول الأخرى.
لكن أسلوب الكاتب مجملًا جاء بسيط وغير متكلِّف.
أكثر ما أعجبني بالكتاب هو الملاحظات المذيَّلة في نهاية الفصول، والملاحظات الفاصلة بين الفقرات. تساعِد على الفهم كثيرًا.
فكرة وجود عالم ميكانيكا كلاسيكية وعالم ميكانيكا كم في مواجهات مستمرَّة ضد بعض هي فكرة طريفة جدًااا
والترجمة لوحدها تستحق ٥ نجوم✨

[ريهام يوسف · Rating 2 out of 5]

عنوان الكتاب خادع جدا كأنه بيضمنلك انك هتطلع فاهم ميكانيكا الكم ومبسوط اوي

من الحاجات الي بكرهها عموما في عملية التعليم هى التشبيهات او الاسقاطات لتسهيل الفهم، في مواقف أخرى بتكون مهمة، انما لا حبذا في التعليم نفسه.
مثلا لو حد غير مختص ومضطر اشرحله معلومة عشان ابني عليها حقائق بعد كدا، تمام. لو في منصة لتبسيط العلوم لنشرها لعامة الناس كمعلومات عامة ف التشبيهات مقبولة برده. الي هو متلقي المعلومة مش محتاج يفهم التفاصيل ولا التعقيد دا كله.

انما شخص بإرادته قرر يقرئ في موضوع ما عشان يفهمه او بيدرس، ليه نستخدم التشبيهات ؟!! ليه بجد، انا جايه عشان افهم عشان اعرف التفاصيل عشان اعرف الكيفية واستوعب السبب، ليه تعتمد في شرحك كله على تشبيهات ؟!

الفكرة ان حتى يا اما اسلوبه صعب اوي، يا اما اسلوبه اطفالي وغير مناسب بالمرة، وانا بقرأه كنت بفتكر معلومات من كتب ثانية وافتكر قد ايه كانت مشروحة كويس حتى لو صعبة شوية.

لو حد حابب يقرأ في الموضوع يعني، فهو كتاب "البحث عن قطة شرودنجر" من أروع الكتب كمقدمة للمجال دا الفيزياء الكلاسيكية والحديثة يعني.

عديت نصه وقاومت كتير عشان اكمله بس مقدرتش، الوقت دا اولى بيه حاجات تانية الصراحة.

[Nada Khaled · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quantumland Rules:

-Probability is the only certain thing here
-Penetrating barrier is available
-Being in more than one place at the same time all together -until being observed- is normal
-Electrons are unseen: Interference take place
-Electrons are seen: No interference (behave classically)
-The impossible takes shorter
-For every particle there is an anti-particle goes backward in time
-Destruction before creation is normal
-Electron-Positron←→Photon
-Nucleus splitting is possible

Okay, after those rules, I feel like being splitted into two versions, a Classical & a Quantum one, and that was the result:


Classical me: It's all nonsense!! Einstein must be right; "God doesn't play dice!"

Quantum me: Aha, but Einstein didn't see all the technological advances based on Quantum mechanics..

Classical me: Even if he did! It's not persuasive! It can't be!!

Quantum me: Don't be so traditional! Be open-minded, please ..

Classical me: Open-minded or Mindless, you mean !?

Quantum me: If you don't believe in it so explain how the equations are working perfectly well!

Classical me: It must be mathematical tricks and no more!

Quantum me: Then explain such technological devices took place based on those equations? The mobile phone you are holding! How is it existed?

Classical me: I don't know but there must be another thing! Something is missing! I'm certain!!

Quantum me: I don't believe in certainty, Probability is what I follow

My Mind:


Since all my knowledge about Quantum Mechanics are Youtube videos & some articles, and it's my first time to read a book about it; I find it a very mind blowing & confusing theory,, and if you decided to apply it on daily life, you are going to hell by your own choice :D

Regarding the book, it is pretty amazing; It's involving this great story "Alice in Wonderland" in the real fantasy of the Quantum world producing this masterpiece,, and the book is so simple and easily understandable for those who know very little about this theory, though some parts beat my brains out, but comparing to the whole book, they are neglected, so if you don't even have the main concepts or a background about it you don't have to worry ;)

[Teo · Rating 2 out of 5]

I went into this book under the impression that Robert Gilmore would use Alice as a medium to teach readers about quantum physics. I was hoping that this would read more like a novel, rather than a textbook. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Instead, Gilmore is - quite literally - teaching you. He is the professor. You are the student sitting in a classroom.

The word 'allegory' is defined as "expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence". In "Alice in Quantumland", our heroine goes from place to place, where she meets characters who give her actual lessons in quantum physics.

"Hello, I am an Electron. Let me tell you something about myself." Begin lesson. The 'narrative' is even interrupted by actual block-quotes which go deeper into the lessons, and also end-of-chapter notes for additional lesson-y stuff.

Basically, add the sentence "The Quantum Mechanic said:" before any quantum physics textbook and you get "Alice in Quantumland". Not exactly the allegory I was hoping for, honestly.

Lesson after lesson after lesson dryly presented by so called characters such as the Photon, the Electron, the Classic Mechanic, the Quantum Mechanic", etc. I say, so called, because there are no actual literary characters in this work; there is no plot; there is nothing besides physics lessons.

Granted, Gilmore does offer some neat scenes that do make some aspects of the whole quantum jumble more understandable to the average reader. It's not enough, however. Myself, I do have an amateur interest for all this physics stuff, but still this book was pretty tedious to finish.

It seems like a lot wasted potential, and that something really remarkable could've been done with this idea. Too bad. To conclude, as Alice herself comments in the last line of the book: "Boring." Can't recommend it.

[Noha · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not going to lie and give a higher ranking to look smart ... I almost understood the first half of the book only

[Cynda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Twenty years ago I spent time at the coffeeshop with a group of medical folk. We used to talk about metaphysics, and they used to talk about quantum physics. I wish I had known about this book then.

Yet I am glad to have read this book now or anyway. I have enjoyed the curiosity of Alice as she has led me into a world of which I have vague high school memories of and into areas I did not know about the quarks and gluons. Sure I have seen images and have read a thing or two. But fear limited me from retaining any knowledge. This allegory helps me to remember and to add information to my mental file.

Because high school was 4 decades ago and because I am only now being introduced to quarks, I will be rereading in another couple of years.

Because I appreciate the allegorical teaching style, I will read at least one more of Robert Gilmore's allegories: Scrooge's Cryptic Carol: Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature. I think it will be the most accessible to me.

[غادة · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
مُمتع ومفيد! أنصح به لكل من يريد أن يقرأ عن ميكانيكا الكم بشكل مفهوم ومبسط

[Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

As the subtitle says, this is an allegory of quantum physics. We find Alice on a dull, rainy day as she watches uninteresting TV programs which leads her to daydream about doing something interesting. As Alice continues watching the TV screen becomes fuzzy and she finds herself being pulled inside, tumbling headlong into a new world - a world where electrons always bounce and wiggle so that they can remain small, where rabbits run headlong at locked doors and pass through unharmed (eventually), where no matter what path Alice takes, she always ends up where she is supposed to be. This is Quantum World, the world that we live in, the world that would make our heads spin if we could see into the atom. The book is full of "color"ful and "quark"y characters and was a lot of fun to read. I recommend it to imaginative science geeks.

[ياسر · Rating 3 out of 5]

ما يحدث هو أن النيوترون داخل النواة يتغير إلى بروتون، وإلكترون بالإضافة إلى جسيم آخر يُدعى نيوترينو. هذا النيوترينو عديم الشحنة وعديم الكتلة، وليس له تفاعل قوي. في الواقع هو لا يفعل أشياء كثيرة، مثل أغلب من أعرفهم.

العالم داخل الذرة غريب، لا يخضع لحدسنا في الغالب، و"أليس في بلاد الكم" واحدة من المحاولات لتقريب مفاهيم نظرية الكوانتم إلينا.
لكن بصراحة، أعتقد أن من لم يعرف أي شيء عن الكوانتم سيستشكل عليه فهم بعض جزئيات الكتاب، ومع ذلك فالكتاب مثير جدًا للبحث ومعرفة المزيد حول أغرب نظريات القرن العشرين.

[Nahed Rahel · Rating 4 out of 5]

كان قد نشر المترجم - الصديق- أحمد سمير سعد سابقا جملة قالي لي أنها محور نظرية أينشتاين، وكان تعليقي أنها جملة شعرية في سياق فيزيائي. هو ما أستطيع قوله الآن عما صادفته أثناء قراءة "أليس في بلاد الكم" فالجمل تحمل شحنة شعرية واضحة، وكذلك فلسفة أقرب لفلسفة التصوف. بالطبع كنت أعيد قراءة الفقرات حتى أستشعر الفهم، وأعتقد أن المترجم قام بجهد واضح في نقل النص فذلل صعوباته العلمية؛ فجاءت الترجمة رغم حمولتها المعرفية سلسة وممتعة في آن

[ron btdtbttsawio · Rating 2 out of 5]

I made it about 30% into this book before I bailed. It's more of a novelty book and doesn't really teach the concepts of quantum physics very well.

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even in this dumbed-down allegorical version, the subject matter was still over my head. In spite of struggling to understand something beyond my grasp, I do feel as if there was material to learn. (And I did learn quite a bit.) I'm sure the science nerds who would love this book, would feel the same way I did had I mentioned the book Wuthering Heights or Mansfield Park?! This book is a great introduction, however limited and basic, into the world of quatum physics. I'll stick to my world of English and History while leaving the rest to those who are naturally inclined toward the sciences.

[sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Need to reread this a few more times. Great way to learn about quantum physics tho! Such a fun read!

[Gloria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Non ho nemmeno realmente terminato la sua lettura (cosa che potrebbe tuttavia accadere in futuro... perché no?). Letto a scuola con la professoressa di fisica e mi ha fatto apprezzare un po' di più la materia ma considerato il mio rapporto conflittuale con quest'ultima non è tra le mie letture preferite. Ci sono passaggi divertenti e facili e altri troppo fisici e troppo poco romanzati (ma forse è giusto così). Consigliato se vi piace e vi intriga la materia.

[PABlo Bley · Rating 5 out of 5]

By adapting Lewis Carroll's well known story "Alice in Wonderland", physicist Robert Gilmore offers an entertaining and educational look at the theoretical framework of Physics-Quantum Mechanics which seems to provide the most accurate explanations of the way things are in the physical world. The story takes us to Quantumland, where Alice encounters a world of electrons and photons, wave functions, the Pauli Principle and the Uncertainty Principle. Along the way, Alice meets Schrödinger's cat, an emperor, a little mermaid and an ugly duckling, all of whom have something to tell her about quantum physics. It's accessible, yet in-depth, with scientific definitions, and fun illustrations that help the reader to imagine very complex concepts.


“Throughout the narrative you will find many statements that are obviously nonsensical and quite at variance with common sense. For the most part these are true.”
― Robert Gilmore, Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

[Alastair · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like a lot of popular science books, how much you get out of Robert Gilmore's Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics will depend on your starting point. Unfortunately, it is probably impossible to fully grasp such a nuanced book without any grounding in the field; yet as someone with a degree in the subject it's impossible for me to judge how this book would look to the totally uninitiated. Nevertheless, I believe this book offers much to both groups - aficionados and novices alike - though it may have scored a notch higher if it had focussed on getting it just right for one or the other.

For both modestly expert and totally ignorant alike there are lots this book does right. Quantum is notoriously 'unvisualisable' and counter-intuitive. Gilmore does a wonderful job both giving a visual account while at the same time not pulling punches about the allegorical nature of his work and the inherent un-classical (i.e. un-reconcilable to our normal ways of thinking) nature of the field.

This is best exemplified by his treatment of electrons. Alice runs into these fundamental particles right at the start and we are immediately thrown into an account of Heisenberg's famous (and massively misunderstood) uncertainty principle:

"Oh please, " said Alice to her first acquaintance. "Would you be good enough to stand still for a moment, as I really cannot see you at all clearly?"
"I am good enough, " said the electron, "but I am afraid there is not room enough. However I will try." So saying he slowed his rate of jiggling. But as he moved more slowly, he began to expand sideways and become more and more diffuse. Now, although he was no longer moving at all quickly, he looked so fuzzy and quite out of focus that Alice could no more see what he looked like than she had been able to before. "That is the best I can do," he panted. "I am afraid that the more slowly I move, the more spread out I become. That is the way things are here in Quantumland: The smaller the space you occupy, the faster you have to move. It is one of the rules, and there is nothing I can do about it."

From here we leap straight into a description of Pauli's Exclusion principle by having lots of electrons move into train carriages (only two in each of course) while Alice - as a different (unspecified) particle is free to go where she pleases. In several followups, meanwhile, Alice jumps at an electron referencing something she believes she'd spoken to a different electron about, only to be reminded that, since electrons are indistinguishable, they are all really the same so each has the 'knowledge' of the other. This translation of physics into human-observable and comedic effects is absolutely brilliant and jarringly brings home the unfamiliarity of the quantum realm.

Such human-followable extrapolations of quantum weirdness are carried on elsewhere. Much of Alice's journey involves being taken to various institutions and places in quantumland. The above episode came from outside the Heisenberg Bank. She moves from there to the Mechanics Institute to learn more about the world around her, before another transition - via a brilliant albeit slightly tedious-to-read depiction of quantum interference effects: she is told to take any path from the institute to the Fermi-Bose Academy; she (of course) takes all available paths but arrives where she needed (i.e. was most likely) to go.

At the Fermi-Bose academy we are treated to the bizarre notion of teachers attempting to run a school for electrons (fermions) and photons (bosons). To depict their differing statistics, the frustrated Principal remarks that:

The electrons are not so bad ... We just count them and see whether we have the correct total. At least the number of electrons is conserved, so we know how many we ought to have, but for the photons even that does not work. The photons are bosons, so they are not conserved you see. We may begin a class with thirty, say, and have fifty or more at the end of it. Or the number may drop to less than twenty - it is hard to predict. This all makes it very difficult for the staff.

In other places I'm not so sure the allegory is useful to the non-physicist. I admire the attempt to bring virtual particles into the discussion. This is a much more advanced concept than even such strange notions as Bose statistics or Heisenberg Uncertainty. Not only does the book introduce them - complete with virtual reality specs to look into the vacuum, which is in fact a teeming mass of rapidly appearing-disappearing particles - but it returns to them many times in subsequent chapters. Alice frequently comments on the cloud of virtual photons she can see around other charged particles. Yet I can't help but feel the chapter introducing them goes into so much detail as to lose readers not already familiar with the concept. The discussion of what constitutes a real particle ("Real particles do in on the Mass Shell") and the relationship to the energy-momentum relationship is surely a step too far. It detracts from the wonderful visualisations of the chapter and dents this book's value for non-physicists.

The same is true in elsewhere: the discussion of the strong force and the numerous quark-composite particles (including comments on strangeness and group symmetries) near the end of the book is probably overkill and certainly gone through too rapidly. The penultimate chapter where Alice descends to the level of quarks would have been excellent had the author not had a rare misstep and insisted on giving the three quarks irritating Marx-brother personalities that makes what they are saying even harder to parse.

The converse - that the book is sometimes too basic - is also true. The sections on elemental chemistry in particular is overly familiar and surely unnecessary to anyone who has gotten through a chapter on virtual particles. This and other places where the book labours explanations of more basic concepts prevents this being a great 'only for the specialist' quantum allegory as well.

My docking of a star from the score reflects my hunch that this book attempts to square the circle in of being detailed enough to satisfy the completionist needs of the specialist, while being intelligible for the lay reader. It is a tour-de-force allegory of quantum physics but not quite a flawless one. Though as there aren't exactly dozens of these books available it is surely a must read for any physicist hoping to develop a pseudo-intuitive grasp of a field they may have studied for years but never felt like they could describe to anyone else. For this, if nothing else, this book ought to be commended.

[Mohamed · Rating 4 out of 5]

the amazing story when we put it in this strange world , the quantum world
it all about real world magic , small scale is real and is not just an imagination like what in the original Alice story
you will feel enjoyed with every line of this book
I have and objection only about over simplification of some points

[Deb Pate · Rating 1 out of 5]

I understood more about quantum mechanics before I read the convoluted allegory. Now I am as confused as Alice was throughout this book.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an allegorical book that is supposed to help teach you the different aspects of quantam mechanics by following Alice around as she encounters the different theories. This got very high marks but this is not for everyone. I had taken physics many decades ago but had lost that knowledge since it was never my major field of study. I think someone studying beginning quantum physics now would benefit from reading this cleverly written and illustrated book.

[Jonny Andres · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just wow. What an amazing allegory utilizing fictional wonderment and the realm of the real world. A smart, playful look at quantum physics. I loved every paragraph.

[Kaoutar Chkd · Rating 4 out of 5]

رحلة ممتعة مع اليس في بلاد الكم ، حيت نتعرف على هذا البلاد و نعرف أساسيات الفيزياء الكمية و القوانين التي يشتغل بيها هذا العالم .

[Rohit Goswami · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best read in one setting. Drop a star if you expected literature. This is a rather coherent exposition of a difficult topic. Unfortunately the allegory is very on the nose and there is neither character development nor world building. The book stutters to a rather abrupt end as well, the arbitrary nature of which could have been avoided if the characters were better. Drop another star if you expect everything to be correct. In particular, I felt myself cringing at every mention of spin. Caveats aside, this makes for a good rainy day read, if you already know all the topics from a more formal viewpoint.

[Daniel Alfredsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Relativt lättläst och bra introduktion till kvantfysik.
Upplevde dock boken som ganska svårförståelig i de sista två kapitlena då många nya koncept introducerades utan särskilt mycket förklaring, men överlag en bra bok.

[Lavinia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I took two years of physics, one in high school and one in college, so none of the information was exactly new (though I haven't taken enough to comment on the correctness or datedness of the material). Even from this perspective, though, the book's greatest flaw is having little to no understanding of what kinds of illustrations readers might find useful. The story takes Alice, a late 20th-century schoolgirl, through several of the best-known thought experiments in quantum physics without benefit of diagrams or pictures. This is especially frustrating considering that there are about a dozen sketches of interesting-looking characters. Simple diagrams done in a different style, a la the chess problems in Through the Looking-Glass, would have been sufficient.

That said, this book is ambitious and in my opinion does fulfill its goals of providing a primer for a very unintuitive field. However, it does the legacy of Alice in Wonderland a disservice (which I haven't factored into my rating) in that it takes the Alice without providing a Wonderland. The Quantumland of the title is a string of loosely related scenarios from enthusiastic physics textbooks linked by in-story geographical location. The original Alice in Wonderland continues to captivate young readers 150 years after its publication because it is abstract enough in the presentation of adult ideas to provide an interesting world and an action-packed plot. Kids can take the logic puzzles and symbolism at face value to enrich the story without becoming confused. Using the Alice framework to present an overt scientific lecture entirely misses the point.

On the other hand, I can't think of a popular children's story that allows for antics as weird as those presented in this book. The generic kids-hanging-out science books I read as a child were boring, and it is a little more fun to think of the quantum mechanics thought constructs as the weird characters of Wonderland. The "allegory" part of the title is more accurate than it sounds: it's a sin in science to anthropomorphize too much because appending human motives and scenarios to non-sentient objects destroys the inhuman dynamics of reality. Bringing the electrons and photons to the forefront as characters seems too overt to fit the "allegory" label, but I think it's necessary to draw kids' attention and is actually a deeper level of metaphor than it seems. The book's end-of-chapter notes may turn kids off with their wordiness, but I actually advise readers to skip them entirely and read the book with Wikipedia or Google close at hand.

[علي أبو زين · Rating 3 out of 5]

رواية علميّة للفيزيائي روبرت جيلمور، الذي يحاول أن يبسّط فكرة ميكانيكا الكم عبر إقحامها في واحدة من أشهر الكلاسيكيّات الأدبيّة "أليس في بلاد العجائب"، وربما يكون له الحق في ذلك كون أليس الأصليّة تنكمش فتدخل عالما له قوانين خاصّة غريبة مختلفة عن الواقع المألوف، وبما أنّ قوانين فيزياء الكم في العالم دون الذرّي لها خصوصيّة مختلفة عن قوانين الحركة والفيزياء الكلاسيكيّة، وتبدو مخالفة للمنطق العقلي، لذلك كان التعويل على حكاية أليس الأصليّة مجديا، ومبرّرا في الأخذ من شهرتها وإسقاطها على أليس التي تنكمش وتدخل في التلفاز لتعيش تجربة عالم ميكانيكا الكم.
ولكن -برأيي- الكتاب لا يصلح للمبتدئ في هذا المجال، فكثيرا ما سيشعر القارئ غير المطّلع على هذا العلم بالتشويش والضياع والإحباط والملل، خاصّة في فصوله الأخيرة، وعنّي كنت أفضّل أن أقرأ كتابا علميّا مجرّدا، على أن أضيع في حكاية أليس الخالية من الرسوم بنسختها العربيّة (فلا أعلم هذا القول مثلا أهو من الحكاية أو من الفيزياء)، ربما يصلح العمل لمن اطّلع أساسا أو له خبرة ولو موجزة في ميكانيكا الكم، وربما أيضا يصلح الكتاب أن يصير مسلسلا كارتونيّا علميّا للناشئة، لا جامدا كما في حالته هنا..
عموما الكتاب يطرح كثيرا من التجارب والأفكار والمصطلحات والأسماء المختصّة بهذا العلم، كتجربة الشقّين وهل الضوء جسيم أو موجة، وقطّة شرودنجر، والرصد، ومبدأ عدم اليقين أو الريبة، واللاحتمية والاحتمالات، ومدرسة كوبنهاغن، وسلوك الالكترونات والفوتونات، والكوانتم، والتصادمات، والموجات والجسيمات، والطاقة والحرارة، والانفجارات النوويّة، والكواركات وغيرها..
الكتاب من عشرة فصول وكلّ فصل يتحدّث عن موضوع..
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[Mai · Rating 5 out of 5]

وجدت الكتاب صوتيا مجانا على تطبيق منطوق للكتب الصوتية

[Emadacuz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dieci anni fa, da studente di seconda liceo, mi sono messo a leggere questo romanzo nella speranza di avere un'idea di cosa parlassero "quelli che fanno scienza", come dice mia nonna. Il risultato e' che oggi, bene o male lavoro ogni giorno -da dottorando in nanotecnolgie farmaceutiche- su fisca e chimica quanistica, anche se in maniera molto superficiale.
Cosi', per omaggiare un libro che ha quasi segnato la mia vita scolastica ed universitaria, ho deciso di rileggerlo... l'ho trovato molto carino, ma estremamente ingenuo. La rilettura mi permette pero' di dire con certezza che l'esperimento di portare a tutti le basi e i nomi della meccanica quantistica e' perfettamente riuscito.

[الشناوي محمد جبر · Rating 3 out of 5]

جيلنا يعرف جيدا قصة أليس في بلاد العجائب، ومن هذه القصص اشتق الكاتب اسم كتابه (أليس في بلاد الكم)، ففي هذاا لكتاب تدخل أليس عالم جديد تماما غير عالمها الغريب العجيب في القصة الأولي، هنا تدخل عالم علي المستوي الذري وما دون الذري كي تطوف وتتعرف علي الذرة بمكوناتها وكيف تعيش كل أجزائها ومكوناتها في عالم الذرات المتناهي في الدقة.
كافة الدروس لعلمية التي تلقيناها في المدارس عن عالم الذرة ونشاطها وتفاعلاتها مع غيرها من الذرات، وعن أسباب لنشاط والخمول في الذرة، كل ذلك نتعرف عليه في هذه القصة، كذلك علماء أسهموا في التعرف علي بنية الذرة، جزء من تاريخ العلم بناه مجهودهم، أيضا نعرف ذلك في إطار قصصي شائق.