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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You | 
 enlarge | Author: Marcus Chown
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 11517
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 057123545X
EAN: 9780571235452
ASIN: 057123545X
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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 Beginers guide September 23, 2008
Mr. G. E. Davison (South Wales)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book! As a non-scientist I still found this book easy to follow and could not put it down and got through the book in a day. Each part to the book starts of with a thought provoking scenario which filled me with exictment to ensure I read every word in the following chapters.
A must read for anyone who has heard of quantum theory.
Science beautifully explained (and he writes kids' fiction too!) September 7, 2008
Pearl Robinson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Did you know that Mr Chown also writes children's fiction? I was curious to see what it was like so I gave it a go. "Felicity Frobisher & the Three-Headed Aldeberan Dust Devil". Check it out. It's funny and very silly - reminded me of Douglas Adams and "The Magic Roundabout" (showing my age!). It also appeals to children - mine loved it - and adults too. It's weird that Mr Chown also writes popular scince. When I picked up "Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You", I was completely ignorant of quantum theory (and relativity - the otherr subject he covers). But I was immediately hooked. This is mind-blowing stuff - and brilliantly explained. What next Mr Chown, after pop science and kids' fiction? Maybe a book on gardening!!!
 read and regret buying June 22, 2008
mike read it or wouldn't comment (sussex)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
this book does what too many popular science books tend to do. It gives a simile and then explains it using physics. This is the wrong way round. Give the physics then explain it using a simile. Otherwise all your explaining using physics is your own bad explanation of physics. This book isn't very good. The explanation of ideas and constant Einstein worship are just irratating. Buy a book by Feynman instead - it'll be more difficult going but more rewarding in the medium to long term (and probably in the short term to). Sorry if that sounds a little harsh but I've read it and feel conned. The author writes for the new scientist, a publication I am a big fan of, but on this book he just doesn't cut it.
Also i find the other reviews rather dubious "I read other books and now I finally inderstand????", if you don't like this review then read it - you'll understand.
 Popular science at its best May 25, 2008
J. Bennett (SE, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In agreement with the general tone of the reviews that this is a very good book for explaining concepts that are so counter-intuitive you really don't want to believe they are true. Popular science is in rude health at the moment and books like this can only add to that. My only gripe is that if you've already read The Never-ending Days of Being Dead you'll find some repeated material.
Quantum theory with a bonus. April 13, 2008
David Lea
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely brilliant book and a fine example to any budding science writers. The subject matter is explained in such a straight forward manner that anyone with an interest in the subject should be able to follow it. As a bonus, not only do you get an explanation of "special relativity" which many authors have tackled but in addition a clear and concise explanation of "general relativity" which very few authors have attempted and none of which, to my knowledge, successfully. Whoever designed that childish dust cover should be fired however the contents are absolutely top notch. Diagrams, who needs them when you can write like that. Marcus Chown you have a new fan !
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