Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics

Amir D. Aczel

Raincoast Books, 2002 - Science - 284 pages

Could fiction become reality? Will a time come when we are able to teleport across space or communicate between universes? The lines between science and science fiction are becoming increasingly blurred. in Philip Pulman's The Amber Spyglass communicate between universes, both are using the phenomenon known as entanglement. Now quantum mechanics promises that some of our wildest dreams may be realized. Recent experiments show not only that such bizarre effects might be possible but that they could become reality, perhaps even in our lifetimes.

About the author

Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel on November 6, 1950. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in decision sciences from the business school at the University of Oregon. He taught at several universities during his lifetime including the University of Alaska and Bentley College. His first book, Complete Business Statistics, was published in 1989 and went through eight editions. His other books include How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid - and Fight - an Audit; Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem; The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity; The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World; Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics; and Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers. He died from cancer on November 26, 2015 at the age of 65.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
• Author: Amir D. Aczel
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Raincoast Books, 2002
• ISBN: 1551926474, 9781551926476
• Length: 284 pages
• Subjects: Science / General; Science / Physics / Quantum Theory