Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. By way of introduction... 1
3. No one can say what quantum mechanics means (and this is a book about it) 4
4. Quantum mechanics is not really about the quantum 22
5. Quantum objects are particle (but sometimes neither wave nor they might as well be) 36
6. Quantum particles aren’t (but sometimes they in two states at once might as well be) 58
7. What ‘happens’ depends on what we find out about it 76
8. There are many ways of theory (and none of them interpreting quantum quite makes sense) 102
9. Whatever the question, the answer is ‘Yes’ (unless it’s ‘No’) 126
10. Not everything is knowable at once 144
11. The properties of quantum objects don’t have to be contained within the objects 158
12. There is no ‘spooky action at a distance’ 178
13. The everyday world is what quantum becomes at human scales 196
14. Everything you experience is a (partial) copy of what causes it 218
15. Schrödinger’s cat has had kittens 238
16. Quantum mechanics can be harnessed for technology 252
17. Quantum computers don’t necessarily perform ‘many calculations at once’ 276
18. There is no other ‘quantum’ you 286
19. Things could be even more ‘quantum’ than they are (so why aren’t they)? 306
20. The fundamental laws of quantum mechanics might be simpler than we imagine 320
21. Can we ever get to the bottom of it? 338
22. Acknowledgements 355
23. Notes 357
24. Bibliography 361
25. Index 373