Popular science · Second edition
Quantum Things
How We Learned to Build with Nature’s Strangest Rules
Your phone thinks you’re across the street. Quantum physics can help explain how it finds you again.
Follow the experiments behind the everyday tools.
Start with the clocks in orbit that help guide you home. Then follow the experiments that made it possible to watch electrons form a pattern one at a time and build a microscope that can move individual atoms.
The expanded second edition follows quantum ideas out of the lab, from a satellite experiment that helped secure a video call to a gravity sensor that picked up a buried tunnel. It is written for curious readers who want to see how the tools work and what they can tell us.
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