Science has made mighty advances since it originated in ancient Greece more than 2500 years ago. Yet we still live in Plato's cave today; we think everything around us moves continuously, but continuous motion is merely a shadow of real motion.
Now an unusual popular science book God Does Play Dice With the Universe, which has just been published, may lead us to walk out the cave along a logical and comprehensible road. After passing Zeno's arrow, Newton's inertia, Einstein's light, and Schrödinger's cat, the readers of the book will reach the real world, where every thing in the universe, whether it is an atom or a ball or even a star, ceaselessly jumps in a random and discontinuous way.
In a famous metaphor, God does play dice with the universe. This reveals a startling new picture of the world, which Einstein could not believe but you can understand. The new discovery may finally solve Zeno's paradoxes and the quantum puzzle. A single particle can indeed pass through two slits at the same time in the double-slit experiment. It needs not be divided, but only needs to move discontinuously.
As the eminent quantum physicist Bernard d'Espagnat commented on the back cover of the book, "Its very existence is at any rate, an excellent illustration of the extent to which physical data force us to depart from commonsense ideas when we try to depict reality `as it really is'."
The book is now available on Amazon. More information can be found on the website www.quantummotion.org.
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