Books: Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime By Sean Carroll

(Drivebycuriosity) - Quantum Mechanics is famous for bizarre phenomena. "Schrödinger`s Cat" and Heisenberg`s uncertainty principle belong to the popular culture. Albert Einstein didn´t like that, he called Quantum  Mechanics "spooky". But Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist, does not agree. His book "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"  tries to drive the fun out of Quantum Mechanics ( amazon).

For instance he claims that "popular discussions of quantum field theory will often describe the vacuum as full of ´quantum fluctuations`or even ´particles popping in and out of existence in empty space`. That`s an evocative picture, but it´s more false than true." Carroll also define the uncertainty principle, entanglement, Schrödinger´s cat away and replaces them by complex iterations. And he spends a lot of time and pages on collapsing wave functions.

Unfortunately Carroll`s book did not work for me. His remarks are too esoteric for my taste. Apparently Carroll wants to show how smart he is and tries to impress his circle of theoretic physicists. This book might be for them, not for me. I had more fun reading Stephen Hawking`s "A Brief History of time" was fun and Carlo Rovelli`s "Seven Brief Lessons On Physics" & John Polkinghorne "Quantum Theory" were at least digestible. "Something Deeply Hidden" is not.