Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Natural sciences
  3. Physics and chemistry

Read and listen for free for 30 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.5(2)

Absolutely Small : How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World

Our intuition about how things should behave is usually right in the everyday world. We see the baseball soar in the air, arc, drop, and lie stationary on the ground. Through data gathered by our senses and basic knowledge of the laws of classical mechanics, the motion of a ball makes perfect sense.

But enter the world of the tiniest particles on earth—the motion of electrons, the shapes of molecules—and everything we think we know about the world radically changes. To understand what’s really happening in the world around us, to comprehend the mysterious, counterintuitive science of the small, we must take a quantum theory view of nature.

Like no other book before it, Absolutely Small makes the inherently challenging field of quantum theory understandable to nonscientists, without oversimplifying and without bogging down in complicated math. Written by an award-winning professor at Stanford University, the book uses clear explanations and real-world examples instead of dense equations to help you understand:

• Why strawberries are red and blueberries are blue

• How particles can change from “mixed states” to “pure states” based solely on observation

• How a single photon can be in two places at the same time

• Why quantum matter sometimes acts like particles, and other times like waves

• Why a piece of metal will glow red when it is hot, and turn blue when it’s even hotter

• What makes salt dissolve in water, while oil does not, and much more

In the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Lewis Thomas, but without the rigorous mathematical requirements, Absolutely Small demystifies the fascinating realm of quantum physics and chemistry, complete with compelling accounts of the scientists and experiments that helped form our current understanding of quantum matter. Challenging without being intimidating, accessible but not condescending, Absolutely Small develops your intuition for the nature of things at their smallest and most intriguing level.


Author:

  • Michael D Fayer

Narrator:

  • Scott Peterson

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 10 h 26 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Natural sciences
  • Physics and chemistry

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. Dreaming Reality : How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness

    Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn

    audiobook
  2. On Time : Causality and the Quantum Gravity Conflict

    Jan Zaanen

    audiobook
  3. Facets of a Smart City: Computational and Experimental Techniques for Sustainable Urban Development

    book
  4. Molecular Nanotechnology

    Fouad Sabry

    book
  5. Human & Alien UFO Anti-Gravity Research

    Martin K. Ettington

    audiobook
  6. Time Reborn

    Lee Smolin

    audiobook
  7. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

    Michael S. Schneider

    audiobook
  8. Astrobiology

    David C. Catling

    audiobook
  9. The Real Nature of Time : An Analysis of Physics, Prophecy, and Time Travel Experiences

    Martin K. Ettington

    audiobook
  10. Gene Machine : The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

    Venki Ramakrishnan

    audiobook
  11. Becoming Enlightened

    His Holiness the Dalai Lama

    audiobookbook
  12. A Fortunate Universe : Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos

    Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes

    audiobook

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5