The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen

Professor Brian Cox is a particle physics professor with his soft-spoken attentiveness and down-to-earth sincerity. He resolves sub-atomic particle matter. It is subversive how the electrons interact around an atom. The dual science of "Newtonian Physics" and "Quantum Physics" takes a plunge out in vicinity, by which "Quantum Theory" of Prof. Michael C. Schultz, J.D., "Synergy-Wave-Linkage," imposed this LHC elicit case.

Read the book while also watching TED talks as well as YouTube videos by other experts on the topics covered in the book. Physics is so much fun today.

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Although published in October 2011, Cox and Forshaw can always be depended on for clearly written science and, despite its age and subsequent advances, e.g. Higg’s Bosun, (eleven months later, 4th July 2012), “The Quantum Universe” relates the history of quantum and particle physics. They set the quantum world beside Newton and Einstein to illustrate their position in this new world, a world in which even Einstein felt uneasy and Schrödinger’s cat is possibly an observer - or, perhaps, not. Explaining the very stuff of the Universe, the atoms and energies that are our world, is not simple. As the sub-title suggests, “Everything that Can Happen Does Happen”. “As our starting point, we will assume the elemental building blocks of Nature are particles.” (P. 25) In this third chapter, they recognise and applaud the quantum pioneer Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winning “all genius, all buffon”. Feynman's ability as a lecturer and writer to strive for clarity is recognised. (I recommend looking at Feynman’s U-tube lectures in which, direct to the camera, using a chalk board, he explains particle physics. At a recent Imperial lecture from Brian Cox - April 2024, Cox showed he has the same enjoyment, relaxed style and deep abilities in the lecture hall.) In the eleven chapters, Cox and Forshaw, take readers steadily through our understanding of the quantum world leading to the Standard Model, the subject of Cox’s Imperial lecture but, they point out, the Standard Model is being tested to its limit. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, is using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to look for still more particles. (See Figure II.1, the Particles of Nature, page 197). The final chapter looks at Space, indicating that, despite the name, space is not empty. “Our nascent Universe’s expanded and cooled, so it transpired that a Higgs free vacuum was disfavoured and a vacuum filled with HIggs’ particles was the natural state.” (P. 211) They manage to reach the Epilogue without too many equations, despite the complexity of the subject matter. On page 214, “The Death of Stars”, the equations begin. I was lost very quickly but the text which accompanies them is very helpful in clarifying the subject matter. A challenging but thoroughly enjoyable “walk through” the history, science and current thinking of the time (2011). It is also, for the non-scientists, a great insight into the scientific approach.

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