The Quantum Rules

How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life

Kunal K. Das

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781632204592
• eBook ISBN:
  9781510703186
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Mathematical & Computational Physics

A New York Times Best Seller! Here is a book to lead you through the fascinating intersections of life and physics with humor and intelligence. Find out how the laws of physics define every aspect of our lives and society, from human nature and relationships to geopolitical issues like financial markets, globalization and immigration. The Quantum Rules is a different kind of physics book, as easy to read as a novel and directly relevant for everyday life issues that affect us all. It is not meant to dazzle you with unproven speculations that have no bearing on your life. Rather, The Quantum Rules will familiarize you with the important and established laws at the heart of physics, in a way never done before – by showing how the defining patterns of our lives, our behavior and our society already follow similar rules.Never took an interest in science before? No problem! you will still understand everything and find plenty to relate to. A scientist or a science junkie? You will find a different perspective on things you may already know. Best of all, you will discover how to have meaningful conversations about physics in a way that won't make eyes glaze over, and in which all can gladly participate. The Quantum Rules also does something you would never expect from a book on physics – it makes you laugh, often. Its new and original take on established natural laws injects plenty of dry humor into this serious subject, by using life to explain physics and in turn using physics to understand life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A Quantum of Happiness
• Chapter 2 The Heisenberg Compromises
• Chapter 3 Entropy Is Messing with Your Life
• Chapter 4 The Laziness Clause
• Chapter 5 Global Effects of Potential Gradients
• Chapter 6 Coping with it all by Scaling and Renormalization
• Chapter 7 Stereotyping Statistical Mechanics
• Chapter 8 Fluctuation Will Lead to Dissipation
• Chapter 9 The Wave Mechanics of Relationships
• Chapter 10 Rules of Attraction
• Chapter 11 Newton’s Laws of Human Dynamics
• Chapter 12 Quantum Theory of Social Interactions
• Chapter 13 Sexually Broken Symmetry
• Chapter 14 Resonance Will Set You Free
• Chapter 15 Fame and the Existential Crisis of Schrödinger’s Cat
• Chapter 16 My Time Is Not Your Time
• Chapter 17 Optimism Collapse on the World Line
• Chapter 18 It Is All on the Surface
• Chapter 19 The Exclusion Principle
• Chapter 20 The Middle Path Integral of Life
• Chapter 21 A Current Formula for Success
• Afterword
• Index