Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Tale of the Quantum in the Window

THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OF QUANTA

Chapter 2: What Is Quantum Physics About?
Chapter 3: Particles and Classical Mechanics
Chapter 4: Fields and Classical Electromagnetism
Chapter 5: What Is a Quantum?

HOW QUANTA BEHAVE

Chapter 6: Perfect Randomness
Chapter 7: Quantum States and How They Change
Chapter 8: Superpositions and Macroscopic Quanta
Chapter 9: An Entangled, Nonlocal Universe

GETTING BACK TO THE NORMAL WORLD

Chapter 10: Schrodinger's Cat and "Measurement"
Chapter 11: The Environment as Monitor: How Change Becomes Irreversible

Endnotes
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Art Hobson is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he continues to keep a campus office and remains quite active in research.

Reviews

"This book is definitely worth reading. Hobson does an excellent job of explaining complex physics without mathematics and presents his argument clearly... Recommended." -- CHOICE
"Tales of the Quantum -- a slim volume very handsomely produced by Oxford U.P. -- is his most ambitious undertaking, the capstone of a distinguished career. ... This is certainly an ambitious book, one in which the author has clearly invested a great deal of thought. It is, in its eccentric way, an important book, not least because it is so provocative." -- American Journal of Physics