Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment that Captures the Enigma of our Quantum Reality: The Enigmatic Story of our Quantum Reality

How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act of looking bring it into reality? Many of science’s greatest minds have grappled with these questions embodied by the simple yet elusive double-slit experiment. With his extraordinary gift for making the complicated comprehensible, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality that we can fathom to provide the clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics. ***PRAISE FOR THROUGH TWO DOORS AT ONCE*** A Forbes Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Best Book of the Year A Smithsonian Favourite Book of the Year ‘An excellent addition to the ‘quantum physics for the rest of us’ shelf.’ Brian Clegg, author of The Quantum Age ‘Offers beginners the tools they need to seriously engage with the philosophical questions that likely drew them to quantum mechanics.’ Science ‘Treats a nineteenth-century light experiment as a sprawling intellectual adventure story… accessible and illuminating.’ Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Science Books of the Year ‘A fascinating read and a must for anyone who would like to find out the latest experimental advances made in this most fundamental of quantum experiments.’ Physics World