I am looking for really good quantum phisics books?

Question

I am just getting into it i have read masaru emoto's books on his studies on water and just recently saw What The Bleep Do We Know, which is sort of an intro to the whole quantum physics thing and Waking Life which deals with some aspects.

Answer 1

I reccomend The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra. I just read it and its so interesting.

Answer 2

That "What the Bleep Do We Know" movie was pseudoscientific BS - that woman they were talking to in most of the film (heavy set blond with the deep voice) is a con artist who tries to get idiots to give her money as she "channels" the spirit of an "Atlantean" who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago (never mind the fact that the human species is less than a hundred thousand years old by most estimates).

Try anything by Richard Feynman. Start with "6 Easy Topics" and then move into "6 Not So Easy Topics." They start with Relativity but get into Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) which is what Feynman is famous for. Feynman could easily be the most important physicist since early Einstein and he was very good at explaining incredibly complex topics (all that and he bragged that he never scored above a 112 on an IQ test).

Answer 3

That's not physics - it's metaphysics at best. Try the paranormal section if that's the kind of pseudoscience you're interested in.

If you want to learn actual quantum physics, here are a few places to start:
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David Griffiths
Introductory Quantum Mechanics by Liboff
Modern Quantum Mechanis by Sakuri

But make sure you've taken 3 semesters of calculus and differential equations first.

Answer 4

If you want an introduction without the heavy maths try Richard Feynmanns book : "QED- The strange theory of light and matter".
or John Gribbons :"In search of Schrodingers cat".
Both are a good read.

Answer 5

I would suggest The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene.