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hydkyll comments on Rationality Quotes January 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hydkyll 06 January 2014 02:08:24AM 3 points [-]

That was my first book on quantum mechanics and I remember reading this. Accordingly, the Stern-Gerlach experiment is usually the first thing I explain to someone who is interested in QM, not these things about cats. Apart from that, I found the book to be a bit too terse and I had to read other books to really master the notation and so on.

Comment author: spxtr 06 January 2014 03:55:24AM 2 points [-]

It's not an introductory text, so it probably goes way too fast if its your first book on QM. I agree about SG being a great experiment for explaining QM principles.