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Quantum Guide to Life How the Laws of Physics Explain Our Lives from Laziness to Love

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ISBN-10: 1620876248

ISBN-13: 9781620876244

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kunal K. Das

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Learn how quantum physics affects your daily life and discover practicalways to put that knowledge to good use! Ever wonder why you always seemto seek the easiest and shortest way to accomplish something?  And why is it so satisfying to drive along aroad hitting every green light as if by magic?  How can you reduce "destructive interference" in your relationships?  Why was the global financial crisis caused by "potential gradients" and how can you better manage your finances?The Quantum Guide to Life applies the laws of physics toexplain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects ofglobalization.  It achieves theimpossible task of making quantum physics deeply relevant to…    
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Kunal K. Das is a Professor of Physics and an active researcherin the fields of Nanotechnology and Ultracold Atoms with ongoing funding fromthe National Science Foundation. He has authored 25 refereed journal publicationsand has taught physics at the university level for 16 years at severalinstitutions including SUNY, Penn State, Fordham, and Harvard. Unlike mostphysicists, he has a lifelong interest in the humanities and pop culture and apassion for classic literature, giving him a unique view of physical laws fromthe perspective of broader human experiences.�He lives in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Quantum of Happiness
The Heisenberg Compromises
Entropy Is Messing With Your Life
The Laziness Clause
Global Effects of Potential Gradients
Coping with it All By Scaling and Renormalization
Stereotyping Statistical Mechanics
Fluctuation Will Lead to Dissipation
The Wave Mechanics of Relationships
Rules of Attraction
Newton's Laws of Human Dynamics
Quantum Theory of Social Interactions
Sexually Broken Symmetry
Resonance Will set you Free
Fame and the Existential Crisis of Schrodinger's Cat
My Time is Not Your Time
Optimism Collapse on the World Line
It is all on the Surface
The Exclusion Principle
The Middle Path Integral of Life
A Current Formula for Success
Afterword
Index