How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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It's not useless for people like me who have a fair bit of physics background, but are not up on QED; and of course it's probably terrible if you're a graduate quantum physicist.

They aren't correct in my e-book edition, and they probably wouldn't have been correct in every DTB edition—or if they are (which means they must have been corrected for every other edition) why aren't they corrected for the e-book? Chad Orzel’s book How to Teach [Quantum] Physics to Your Dog is an enjoyable analysis of many of the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. The book starts with a basic introduction to what quantum physics is, and how it differs from classical physics. This is an excellent book, despite its quirky, and somewhat cringe-making, style where the author is talking to his dog - and the dog, who is already quite knowledgeable about physics, replies. Still, there is a link to the book, and you will find it in the middle of my blurb under the heading "A message to Chad".

The first part of this weird expression is just a neologism for the expression 'property', and the second part refers to the philosophy of 'existence' (but, I would argue, the use of this expression is misleading, as the classical interpretation of ontology is exactly reversed in this new philosophy). The author knows his subject very well and knows how to explain it without relying on mathematical equations. People usually tend to explain it as an inability of measurement, which is not the only reason of uncertainty.

From there the author moves to an explanation of the topic and the experiments used to prove the theory correct. I am in a quagmire, I am thrashing around, straining to grasp the branch of a tree in an attempt to steady myself, to lift myself onto solid ground.Certain other parts of this book, like explaining quantum Zeno effect and quantum teleportation, I think, could have been done in a better manner.