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I highly recommend this book to those who do not have a SOLID foundation in science and quantum physics. The back cover offers us "a quick route to the magical world of quantum mechanics," and all that "through an original detective story." Alas, it is not so! The publisher saw fit to present this book as an "initiatory fantasy" to quantum physics, and Alain Connes as principal, it was actually good business case ...
First, the text is not written. The reading was deeply annoyed. In the words of Alain Connes during a TV show, there are several degrees of reading this book: first, we share the life of a physicist researcher, the second, it was introduced to quantum physics ...
Except that the story in itself is not original, is not developed, is not written ... For example, early in the book, rather than describe landscapes with some literary effort, the authors give us the name of countless places in Venice that the character visits ... And it's really annoying because it does not fit in the text, it was rather like reading a backpacker that a novel: "The staircase seems interminable and after Ciao shy daughter of the box, eager to close the shop, she goes to the church of the Salute, which is close to Punta della Dogana. [] It starts dozing. Surprennantes of images unfold in his head: the Salute with his fallen angles, Grand Canal desert, the Punta della Dogana illuminates. She barely took a look at the statue of Vater Staat Thomas Schütte, before the main entrance. "
Indeed, surprising images ... well I guess! Or I go to Google ...
This is nothing next to that famous "initiation" to quantum physics. First, the passages (often dialogues) that speak of quantum physics are more like excerpts from science textbooks that true romance dialogues. And again, it is deeply boring ... why? Because it is simply incomprehensible to one who has no solid basis in quantum physics (I had yet read an introductory book to the PQ, but this is far from the case). The funny (or sad), it is the glossary definitions that are at the end of the book, meant to help us understand the scientific jargon. Indeed, it's funny because the definitions are as incomprehensible as the terms they are supposed to explain.
An example of a dialogue in which the physicist (Charlotte Dempierre) chats with another researcher: "It describes, in his lecture, an experience whose principle is due to D. Greenberger, MA Horne and A. Zeilinger, state corresponding quantum is called a dailleurs GHZ state. It is a state of quantum entanglement * which highlights the contradiction between the existence of local hidden variables and quantum mechanics. "So we went to the glossary, to read the definition of" quantum entanglement "and there! : Quantum phenomenon involving several spatially separated particles in which the system status involves correlations between observable individual. A measurement made on one particle instantly seems to influence the system state, but not n can transmit information faster than the speed of light. This phenomenon is used to perform teleportation.
Throughout the reading, the text alternates between first degree and second degree reading: uninteresting passages on the comings and goings of the physics ... and the style passages "science textbook," inaccessible to most readers.
I am disappointed and I regret having spent my money on this book, maybe is interesting when you have a good knowledge of quantum physics, but that is certainly not provided literary qualities worthy of a novel .