From Chris Ferrie (Where Did the Universe Come From?), a physicist and an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, comes Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics, a precise, lighthearted and wiseacre tour through the discoveries and fundamental theoretical concepts undergirding classical and quantum physics. With plain-spoken language, colored with humorous profanity, and a minimal number of equations and esoteric terms, Ferrie's book opens doors in minds and provides a memorable grounding in a difficult topic, and makes readers much smarter by the last page than they were on the first.
Ferrie, while reveling in his love of science and the wonder of discovery, reserves stern critique for hucksters trading in pseudoscientific products with the word "quantum" in them, people who promise to perfect life in exchange for a little bit of money. He writes this book, in part, to displace their voices in the scientific conversation and to call out and scandalize their denigration of his vocation.
However, above all, it is Ferrie's mission to impart an appreciation of science not as a dogmatic system of rigid belief but as a set of habits of mind, founded upon continuous inquiry. Methodically--through persistent imagination, study, formulation, testing, reformulation, retesting, re-reformulation (all ad infinitum)--hard truths are rare but discoverable. Though the world may seem to be suffocating in "bullsh*t," which can and must be called out, Ferrie leads a joyful journey through incredible discoveries amidst a vast unknown. --Walker Minot, freelance writer and editor