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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This book is an allegory of quantum physics, in the dictionary sense of "a narrative describing one subject under the guise of another". The way that things behave in quantum mechanics seems very odd to our normal way of thinking and is made more acceptable when we consider analogies to situations with which we are familiar, even though the analogies may be inexact. Such analogies can never be very true to reality as quantum processes are really quite different from our normal experience.

An allegory is an extended analogy, or series of analogies. As such this book follows more in the footsteps of Pilgrim's Progress or Gulliver's Travels than of Alice in Wonderland. Alice appears the more suitable model, however, when we examine the world that we inhabit.

(Extracted from the Preface)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Into Quantumland.

-The Heisenberg Bank.

-The Mechanic's Institute.

-The Copenhagen School.

-The Fermi-Bose Academy.

-Virtual Reality.

-Atoms in the Void.

-Castle Rutherford.

-The Particle MASSquerade.

-The Experimental Physics Phun Phair.

OUR REVIEW

Robert Gilmore displays in this book an important talent as he explains in a clear way for the general readership the complex questions of quantum physics. This is no easy task, but the author utilizes his literary skills to explain these questions by means of analogies, in a narrative frame inspired on Gulliver's Travels and Alice in Wonderland.

The read is pleasant indeed, and attracts from the start. Inserted in the general text, there are several technical sections that act as summaries of the contents of the chapters. This makes the book useful as a reference source for concrete issues.

Obviously, this book will be the ideal introduction to quantum physics for the people that have been interested in this issue but have rejected to read too technical works for their level of scientific knowledge, or rather boring divulgative books. Of course, more specialized readers that enjoy an amusing read on physics, can also enjoy reading this book.