17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
there's a lot of books out on the subject, but one suitable for popular interest is "the cosmic code" by Heinz R. Pagels, it's actually in paperback. does a nice job of giving a straightforward explanation of bell's paradox/inequality. the only relevance of QM to this list I can see is the possibility of computer storage/computation using it. there's a nice article in discover of jan 1998, p94 on Gershenfeld and Chuang's accomplishment of using atomic spin states to compute the sum of two binary digits. (qubits). at the rate science is going I'd say that any major quantum mechanical computation such as factoring a small number is probably at least a decade away.