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A book that really broke this concept open for me was Lynn Mctaggart's, "The Field".
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/006143518X
It really blew my mind. She gets into the P.E.A.R research at Stanford utilizing the manipulation of a random event generator by people.
This also leads into the topic of consciousness research through the installation of REG machines around the world, recording data 24/7 and correlating to events the world pays attention to. The research is honestly incredible to look into.
Global Consciousness Project - http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
There is a chapter about it in this book. Totally worth a buy but you can certainly find a pdf if you just want to read that chapter.
I'm also from Canada and started getting into physics around your child's age. (I'm now a grad student.)
If he's interested, you should get him both popular books and a good introductory textbook. I can't speak as to other provinces, but the physics curriculum in Ontario leaves much to be desired. For this reason, I think it's worth self-studying physics if he's interested. Irrespective of whether he pursued physics as a career, the skills you acquire from doing physics carry over to many different fields, and (more importantly) it's fun!
You've already received many good recommendations for popular books - I'll add QED: the strange theory of light and matter, by Feynman. Here's a link to it on Amazon.
As for textbooks, I'd get him a nice book on calculus and any introductory physics text. I learned calculus from this book, which is intended for self-study. It's a pretty old book, but it's great.
A bunch of good youtube channels have already been brought up in this thread, and the only one I'll add is 3blue1brown, who makes some beautiful and accessible videos about math.
Good book on rogue waves: The Wave - Susan Casey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767928857
They make a point in the book that rogue waves basically erase a container ship every two weeks from the face of the earth.
What about some Doctor Who books? Doctor Who always piqued my curiosity for the ways of the universe. And, a bit of non fiction sorta thing Michio Kaku books are great! I read them when I was only a little older than her. Star Trek also is usually pretty tame as far as sex scenes. At least as far as I know.
This isn’t Sci-fi but Fablehaven by Brandon Mull is a WONDERFUL series. Grew up to that book. I can still quote it with the audiobook.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition
$129.04
I don't know about apps per se, doesn't Audible have one? Anyway, I am listening to Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rivello - it's about gravity loops and the narration is first rate. You might like that.
You might want to take some time and read Feynman's presentation.
I'm fairly confident my post summarizes his approach.
Remember it was Feynman who gave the teams at Stanford a conceptual model they could understand. That understanding led them to prove the existence of quarks. The guy was no dummy.
I didn't say the glass absorbs photons. I said the electrons either absorb or emit the photons.
> A more appropriate description is that the electrons in the glass are perturbed by the incident light... You're describing electrons absorbing photons.
"My explanation" isn't mine. It's Feynman's. Rather, it's my gross simplification of his 4, 1 hour lectures. It's a particle-centric explanation instead of wave-centric explanation and is a hell of a lot easier to understand as to what's going on.
You can cite all the Internet sources you want but Feynman literally wrote the book on QED. Well he, Schwinger and Tomonaga did. Schwinger's approach was supplanted by Feynman's. His diagrams made renormalization computation far easier to the point that Schwinger moaned Feynman had made renormalization too easy.
The short answer is electrons absorb and emit photons as photons travel through matter. The direction the photons are emitted is a probabilistic function of the photon's energy. If the absorbed photon didn't have enough energy to make the electron change orbitals, the emitted photon most likely be emitted in a certain direction. If the absorbed photon did have the requisite energy for the electron to jump, then when a photon is eventually emitted, it'll be in different direction.
The idea that glass is transparent to visible light because the light doesn't have enough energy to be absorbed by electrons in the glass is wrong. The photons are being absorbed and emitted willy nilly, but the most likely direction the photons are emitted is in the same direction the absorbed photons were initially traveling. This interpretation explains why some photons are reflected, why the optical clarity of glass varies sinusoidaly and indefinitely as you thicken glass, why light travels more slowly in glass than it does in vacuum and a host of other aspects.
Richard Feynman, a physicist who won a Nobel prize for inventing a technique for computing how electrons and photons interact, gave a series of four lectures in 1984 that describe the process in laymen's terms. The lectures are available here Be prepared to be surprised by what he said, it's not the usual stuff you stumble across around the net or many college lectures. Thing is, his computational techniques and diagrams are what are used.
One, I'm not attacking anyone and particularly not the youngsters. I'm trying to speed their progress. I provided plenty of directions on what they should be reading. Go up to my initial comment here. I didn't dismiss Graham completely; instead I suggested people read Zhang first for some proper framework. In particular, his approach is compatible with efficient markets so the premiums are there to be earned by everyone. (More broadly I like to live with an abundance mindset. It's not always zero sum, mi amigo, especially since we are not talking about alpha here.)
You present yourself as a thinking man and professional, but sometimes I wonder if you have a reading comprehension problem or alternatively your reading ability is fine but you are so resistant to the viewpoints of others that you fail to understand them properly before you lash out. I'm no psychologist so I will leave that to your therapist.
Second, go knock yourself out with his lectures (https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827/) . Not a real test since you are smarter than the average /r/investing bear but give it an honest effort and report back in a month.
I would look through Michio Kaku's bibliography. He writes a lot about time travel, FTL, parallel worlds, etc. <em>Hyperspace</em> is a good starting point.
Also <em>World Building</em> by Stephen L. Gillett. It's specifically aimed at SF writers and covers how to design solar systems, life-supporting planets, etc. This book is part of an SF writing series edited by Bova; I haven't looked at the other books in the series, but they sound interesting.
First of all I will say that no matter what you look at, physics is one of those things where you can never be "correct" per se without understanding the math. That goes double for QM which is math all the way down. No matter how you explain it, you will always find that "but what about this exception" can be answered to your satisfaction only by getting a mathematically rigorous treatment of the topic.
That said, for understanding quantum on a "fun" level (i.e. skipping a couple of years of calculus, linear algebra, and numerical analysis), I'd recommend Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. A very well-known and highly respected physicist with a talent for teaching. Although "quantum electrodynamics" as covered in the book is not strictly QM as generally imagined, he does cover the core of what is at interest in quantum theory (electromagnetic interactions at a subatomic level) in a pretty interesting and decently understandable way. That sounds like about what you're looking for.
To quote Richard Feynman >"...there is also an amplitude for light to go faster (or slower) than the conventional speed of light. You found out in the last lecture that light doesn't go only in straight lines; now, you find out that it doesn't go only at the speed of light! It may surprise you that there is an amplitude for a photon to go at speeds faster or slower than the conventional speed, c."
When Feynman said "amplitude" he meant "the square of the probability of an event." The above quote came from a series of lectures he gave at UCLA that were subsequently published.
It depends on how much background you have in mathematics. There is a lot of popular garbage out there that contorts certain theories of physics for grandiose statements about the human condition or mind. Most of it gibberish.
A fun sort of intro is the "How to teach X to your dog" because most of the weirdness of modern physics stems from Quantum Mechanics (and Relativity and the nuclear force). So, this book for example, written by a physicist: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teach-Quantum-Physics-Your/dp/1851687793
A little bit denser but more on the cosmogolical scale of things is Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
You have to give some sense of what you are willing to invest here. Physics is not easy, and popular science is generally quite vapid.
I recommend the Feynman Lectures on Physics, they are very clear and reaches up to quantum theory. If you feel that you don't know enough mathematics then you can read Schaum's Outline series on Calculus, and whatever other topic you feel is stopping you.
For textbooks, you would need to be more specific on what topics you are interested in.
As for books you could find in Barnes & Noble (or similar stores), try The Math Book. It has short blurbs on a lot of really important mathematical ideas in chronological order. Also, the series "A Very Short Introduction to..." is really good.
EDIT: Also, this
You're talking about his newer books where he's essentially become a "futurist". I still think this book is an amazing introduction to thinking in higher spatial dimensions. And I still believe in the concept of light as vibrations of 5th dimensional space time.
If you want the long and complete answer, read QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library by Richard Feynman. Fascinating stuff that will melt your mind.
I'm not sure if this is the style that you're looking for, but I really enjoyed "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed The World"
It takes 17 equations and uses each to discuss it's journey through history as well as it's influence on the modern world.
Michio Kaku does a great job of explaining advanced concepts of physics in layman's terms. He describes 14 dimensions in the book.
read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Hyperspace-Scientific-Odyssey-Parallel-Universes/dp/0385477058/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1291998866&sr=8-3
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK FROM AMAZON! get it elsewhere please.
edit: OOH! since you mentioned time. This will help you learn to conceive alternate states of such....and is a really kick-ass book.
DON'T BUY THIS ONE FROM AMAZON EITHER! plz.
Thanks for the explanation.
I still do not understand how this can be related to Maharshi's teachings, but I kind of see where this is coming from.
If you don't mind me asking: how about Einstein's formula E = MC^2? Doesn't that say everything is energy, and not mass?
Also, I'm curious as to what you'd say about the book called "The Field". Look it up on Amazon--it's basically a scientific analysis of the non-physical. If you ever do read, send me a message, I'm interested in what you'd have to say about it.
Have a good one.