Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel
Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel
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Breakfast with Einstein
The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects

Author: Chad Orzel

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/11/2018


Synopsis

Your alarm goes off, and you head to the kitchen to make yourself some toast and a cup of coffee. Little do you know, as you savor the aroma of the steam rising from your cup, that your ordinary morning routine depends on some of the weirdest phenomena ever discovered.

The world of quantum physics is generally thought of as hopelessly esoteric. While classical physics gives us the laws governing why a ball rolls downhill, how a plane is able to fly, and so on, its quantum cousin gives us particles that are actually waves, "spooky" action at a distance, and Schrodinger's unlucky cat. But, believe it or not, even the most mundane of everyday activities is profoundly influenced by the abstract and exotic world of the quantum.

In Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel illuminates the strange phenomena lurking just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in his (and anyone's) morning routine. Orzel, author of How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, explores how quantum connects with everyday reality, and offers engaging, layperson-level explanations of the mind-bending ideas central to modern physics.

About Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel is a physicist, professor, and blogger, and the author of How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, and Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. Orzel has been blogging about physics and academia for Forbes and Scienceblogs.com since 2002. He is earned a BA in physics from Williams College and a PhD in chemical physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. At that time, he completed his thesis research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology with Bill Phillips (Nobel Laureate in 1997), and he was a post-doc at Yale before starting at Union, studying the quantum physics of ultra-cold atoms.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif

This book aims to explain quantum physics by tying its bizarrely exotic features to common everyday events. The hope of this approach is to convey to the reader the fact that quantum physics is part of everyday life, not some obscure theory separated from reality. Indeed the book explains that the q......more

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Goodreads review by Kevin

This is a great explanation of quantum physics and how it impacts our everyday lives. I only gave it three stars because the subject matter is dense, and despite the author's best efforts, there were times when it came off as dry. I learned quite a bit in the reading of this book, but I fear that I w......more