Tagged "Physics"

I just finished reading Feynman’s “QED: The Strange Theory of Light And Matter” (henceforth ‘QED’) and, in the context of my post on reading more, I would like to give you a writeup of my thoughts. ‘QED’ is a pop-sci book covering the quantum theory of electromagnetism known as quantum electrodynamics.

The popular culture picture of quantum mechanics is highly inaccurate. The word “quantum” has become synonymous with weird and wacky physics. “In quantum physics, a cat can be dead and alive at the same time!”, people say. In this article I will attempt to explain QM in a way that people can understand as well as shed light on the infamous cat, while utilising minimal notation and mathematics.