Once Upon a Time There Was No Cat

The mental experiment with Schrodinger’s cat symbolizes the oddness of quantum physics. But has anyone actually ever talked to the cat? In this book you will find a story about the most famous cat in the history of science (even though it has never existed), thanks to which the author explains what quantum physics is all about, why it is so strange, why it has disrupted classical physics and established an indissoluble link with philosophy and the concept of reality. Actually, all of this is explained by the cat itself – the great-great- grandson of Schro¨dinger’s cat! A very light- hearted and British-style tale, in which Monica Marelli resorts to simplicity and a relaxed tone in order present us rigorously with a great big chunk of physics.

Monica Marelli is a physicist who writes, and writes and writes about physics, but with rigorous light-heartedness. She is well known in bookstores for The physics of mewing (Editoriale Scienza), The physics of stilettos (Rizzoli), The physics of woof (Editoriale Scienza), The physics of girls (Editoriale Scienza), Sex & the Physics (Rizzoli, co- authored with Emiliano Ricci, who has also published The Great Bear’s Travels with Scienza Express).

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