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You won't learn anything about quantum mechanics that you don't already know
This book is a sham. The author is purely getting off on showing how brilliant he thinks he is to others who purport to know a lot about quantum mechanics. There is almost nothing here in the form of explaining what he is talking about to someone who is intelligent but isn't part of the quantum vocabulary club. There's nothing like telling us the "wave function collapses when it is measured" to get across absolutely zippo about what he is talking about.
Usually, in my experience, hiding behind non-explanatory lingo like this is a sign the writer doesn't really understand the subject matter.
The Mr. Carroll should take a good, hard look at "Relativity Visualized" by Lewis Carroll Epstein if he wants to get an inkling of how to actually explain scientific phenomena to those who aren't members of the club. Much as he seems to think relativity is merely an adjunct of Newtonian physics and not of great significance compared to quantum mechanics, maybe he'd get a clue if he'd learn a bit more about it.
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