{"id":445,"date":"2011-11-08T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/physics-news\/the-amazing-story-of-quantum-mechanics\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:17:28","slug":"the-amazing-story-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/physics-news\/the-amazing-story-of-quantum-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New book release by our friend Jim Kakalios, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physics-Superheroes-Spectacular-Second\/dp\/1592405088\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1320768739&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Physics of Superheroes<\/em><\/a> and first guest on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aplusphysics.com\/podcasts\/pia.htmlhttp:\/\/www.aplusphysics.com\/podcasts\/pia.htmlhttp:\/\/www.aplusphysics.com\/podcasts\/pia.htmlhttp:\/\/www.aplusphysics.com\/podcasts\/pia.htmlhttp:\/\/www.aplusphysics.com\/podcasts\/pia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Physics In Action<\/a> podcast:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/vngjzv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" title=\"amazing_b1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"amazing_b1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/amazing_b1.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> As a young science fiction fan, physicist James Kakalios marveled at the future predicted in the pulp magazines, comics, and films of the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s. By 2010, he was sure we&#8217;d have flying cars and jetpacks. But what we ended up with\u2014laptop computers, MRI machines, Blu-ray players, and dozens of other real-life marvels\u2014are even more fantastic. In <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/vngjzv\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics<\/em><\/a>, he explains why the development of quantum mechanics enabled our amazing present day.<\/p>\n<p>In his trademark style, Kakalios uses pop culture examples\u2014everything from the graphic novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Watchmen-Alan-Moore\/dp\/1401219268\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1320769003&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Watchmen<\/a><\/em> to schlock horror movies of the &#8217;50s\u2014to elucidate some of the most complex science there is. And he brings to life the groundbreaking scientists whose discoveries made our present life possible. Along the way, he dispels the misconception that quantum mechanics is unknowable by mere mortals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New book release by our friend Jim Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes and first guest on our Physics In Action podcast: &#160; As a young science fiction fan, physicist James Kakalios marveled at the future predicted in the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/physics-news\/the-amazing-story-of-quantum-mechanics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,14,216],"tags":[274,275,276],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-physics-news","category-teaching","tag-kakalios","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}