--- product_id: 43407601 title: "Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything" price: "121.70 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/43407601-spooky-action-at-a-distance-the-phenomenon-that-reimagines-space store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything **Price:** 121.70 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything - **How much does it cost?** 121.70 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/43407601-spooky-action-at-a-distance-the-phenomenon-that-reimagines-space) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time-and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything on desertcart.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Review: But it's brilliant gibberish. Musser is either a charlatan or a ... - This book is gibberish. But it's brilliant gibberish. Which kind of makes sense because he's explaining quantum physics, which is useful gibberish. Musser is either a charlatan or a great explainer. Or both. I read this book foolishly expecting him to explain quantum entanglement. He can't. Nobody can. Feynman said don't feel bad if you don't understand quantum physics - nobody does. I tossed the quantum entanglement problem to my really smart 10 year old grandson who has not yet been biased by a conventional physics education and even he couldn't figure it out. But his explanations were every bit as entertaining as Musser's explanations of whether time and space really exist. So why the 5 stars? He does a superb job of explaining all the nonsense theories. Very entertaining. My advice - Never try to read explanations of quantum physics sober. Review: Non-Locality as General Principle(?) - The term “spooky action at a distance” comes from Einstein’s view of quantum non-locality and was later renamed “entanglement” by Schrodinger. That entanglements really were non-local was emphasized by John Bell and hundreds of subsequent “Bell tests.” Since entanglement non-locality seems to operate outside of time and space, it raises the question, “If space isn’t what we thought it was, then what is it?” That is the key question addressed by Musser’s book. Much of the reading is about people and history of modern speculative physics at its fringes (holography, duality, strings, loops, D0-branes, black hole horizons, twistors, amplituhedron, wormholes, matrix models, and non-commutative geometry). The many ideas discussed are all beyond present test abilities; and the book trades any detail for wide breadth of coverage. Because it is on the fringes of physics, there is no closure or conclusions and a feeling of handwavings. The overall lack of tangibility can be pretty frustrating. One of the key players mentioned in the book was Fotini Markopoulou who had worked in the areas of causal sets, causal dynamical triangulation theory (CDT, 2006 with Lee Smolin) theory and quantum graphity (2008) but then left physics for work in Innovation Design in 2012 (not “industrial design” as stated in the book). It is of great interest to know what modern theoretical physicists are working on, and Musser provides that. His book is well-written with many short but clear analogies and colorful terms (like the “prebangian epoch”). Apart from quantum mechanics, one example of non-locality is black hole horizons: “the location of the horizon depends not only on how strong the hole’s gravity is now, but how strong it will be.” But the horizon is a deduced view of an observer lying very far away from a region where time seems to stand still – not a conventional use of the term “location.” I believe that book would have had more needed solidity if it had initially discussed the strongly well-verified experimental state of Bell Tests for quantum entanglement and showed more space-time diagrams of non-local strangeness. Here, Anton Zeilinger is a very key player (perhaps worthy of a future Nobel Prize). One of his experiments showed "delayed-choice entanglement swapping" and another “teleportation” of a quantum state. Swapping means the transfer of a quantum state of one photon to another. Possibly his most famous demonstration was quantum teleportation over 144 kilometers between two Canary Islands. Other authors did a separate 2013 test called, "Entanglement Swapping between Photons that have Never Coexisted"-- entanglement can be over spacelike or timelike separations. The easiest understanding of non-local entanglement is perhaps the “transactional interpretation” from John Cramer. This allows sub-quantum communication between an emitter and an absorber both forwards and backwards in time (“zig-zag”, you know where you’re going because you’ve already been there). The classical world only allows time to progress forwards, but the quantum wavefunction lives in a different world more resembling “the square root of reality” and may communicate both ways in time (retarded and advanced). Then all the tested space-time diagrams of non-locality make simple intuitive sense. This is mentioned briefly in the book under “reverse causation” but then quickly dismissed (perhaps due to a confusion over the term signaling as classical versus sub-quantum). The book has many good reviews, communications with many great modern physicists, extensive bibliography and notes, and a good index. But good understanding would require a lot of individual effort investigating elsewhere. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #442,720 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #120 in Relativity Physics (Books) #194 in Quantum Theory (Books) #242 in Astrophysics & Space Science (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (585) | | Dimensions | 5.47 x 0.72 x 8.16 inches | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 0374536619 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0374536619 | | Item Weight | 9.6 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 304 pages | | Publication date | November 15, 2016 | | Publisher | Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | ## Images ![Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91QBZOpdjmL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ But it's brilliant gibberish. Musser is either a charlatan or a ... *by S***D on December 28, 2015* This book is gibberish. But it's brilliant gibberish. Which kind of makes sense because he's explaining quantum physics, which is useful gibberish. Musser is either a charlatan or a great explainer. Or both. I read this book foolishly expecting him to explain quantum entanglement. He can't. Nobody can. Feynman said don't feel bad if you don't understand quantum physics - nobody does. I tossed the quantum entanglement problem to my really smart 10 year old grandson who has not yet been biased by a conventional physics education and even he couldn't figure it out. But his explanations were every bit as entertaining as Musser's explanations of whether time and space really exist. So why the 5 stars? He does a superb job of explaining all the nonsense theories. Very entertaining. My advice - Never try to read explanations of quantum physics sober. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Non-Locality as General Principle(?) *by D***N on February 24, 2016* The term “spooky action at a distance” comes from Einstein’s view of quantum non-locality and was later renamed “entanglement” by Schrodinger. That entanglements really were non-local was emphasized by John Bell and hundreds of subsequent “Bell tests.” Since entanglement non-locality seems to operate outside of time and space, it raises the question, “If space isn’t what we thought it was, then what is it?” That is the key question addressed by Musser’s book. Much of the reading is about people and history of modern speculative physics at its fringes (holography, duality, strings, loops, D0-branes, black hole horizons, twistors, amplituhedron, wormholes, matrix models, and non-commutative geometry). The many ideas discussed are all beyond present test abilities; and the book trades any detail for wide breadth of coverage. Because it is on the fringes of physics, there is no closure or conclusions and a feeling of handwavings. The overall lack of tangibility can be pretty frustrating. One of the key players mentioned in the book was Fotini Markopoulou who had worked in the areas of causal sets, causal dynamical triangulation theory (CDT, 2006 with Lee Smolin) theory and quantum graphity (2008) but then left physics for work in Innovation Design in 2012 (not “industrial design” as stated in the book). It is of great interest to know what modern theoretical physicists are working on, and Musser provides that. His book is well-written with many short but clear analogies and colorful terms (like the “prebangian epoch”). Apart from quantum mechanics, one example of non-locality is black hole horizons: “the location of the horizon depends not only on how strong the hole’s gravity is now, but how strong it will be.” But the horizon is a deduced view of an observer lying very far away from a region where time seems to stand still – not a conventional use of the term “location.” I believe that book would have had more needed solidity if it had initially discussed the strongly well-verified experimental state of Bell Tests for quantum entanglement and showed more space-time diagrams of non-local strangeness. Here, Anton Zeilinger is a very key player (perhaps worthy of a future Nobel Prize). One of his experiments showed "delayed-choice entanglement swapping" and another “teleportation” of a quantum state. Swapping means the transfer of a quantum state of one photon to another. Possibly his most famous demonstration was quantum teleportation over 144 kilometers between two Canary Islands. Other authors did a separate 2013 test called, "Entanglement Swapping between Photons that have Never Coexisted"-- entanglement can be over spacelike or timelike separations. The easiest understanding of non-local entanglement is perhaps the “transactional interpretation” from John Cramer. This allows sub-quantum communication between an emitter and an absorber both forwards and backwards in time (“zig-zag”, you know where you’re going because you’ve already been there). The classical world only allows time to progress forwards, but the quantum wavefunction lives in a different world more resembling “the square root of reality” and may communicate both ways in time (retarded and advanced). Then all the tested space-time diagrams of non-locality make simple intuitive sense. This is mentioned briefly in the book under “reverse causation” but then quickly dismissed (perhaps due to a confusion over the term signaling as classical versus sub-quantum). The book has many good reviews, communications with many great modern physicists, extensive bibliography and notes, and a good index. But good understanding would require a lot of individual effort investigating elsewhere. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great beginner book for quantum mechanics *by A***H on November 24, 2025* Well done. Interesting information. 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