What Are You Reading

Spooky Action at a Distance was an enlightening exploration into the history of non-locality in physics although there are several aspects to it and in many places in the text I was unsure exactly how the phenomenon being explained qualified as non-local. The premise of the book is that space, and likely time as well, are emergent properties of whatever is going on in a level below quantum mechanics and general relativity, but it couldn't in the end come up with more than a quick sketch of what a physics without space or time would look like. Still, I'm glad I read the book to see where the current frontier of physics is at.

I finished QED : the strange theory of light and matter and I think I understand the ideas a little better now, although I'd like to read some other non-technical books on quantum physics to get other perspectives. Also the book was written in 1985 and I know there have been more developments since then. I liked that he explained it in a way that made it clear exactly what is being calculated and why but not actually how to do the calculations.

I'll keep the discussion in the more active thread over in the Science! group...