I loved this book - my first by George Musser. I found his style both entertaining and informative which kept me hooked despite some really serious physics that might put some people off. He tackles the tentacles of the octopus that is quantum mechanics without shying away from the obvious conclusion: Quantum mechanics IS weird and counter-intuitive, and 'spooky' as Einstein famously said. But Musser's treatment of the topic is thorough, or as thorough as it can be in a book of this size and style. He weaves the different threads together to form a paradigm-shifting, mind-boggling view of reality that may challenge some of our deepest convictions of what reality actually is.

Highly recommended.

Musser does his best to make an extremely complex and difficult topic understandable to the lay reader, but he doesn't always succeed. This is through no fault of his own, as even the most prominent theoretical physicists don't agree on locality vs. nonlocality and what it means for space, time, reality, life, the universe, and everything — a debate that Musser chronicles throughout this book. I enjoyed his writing style and what I understood of his explanations, and appreciated the diagrams included in this book. I would consider reading other books by him on a different topic, but as someone who's forgotten most of my high school physics class, I didn't take away a lot from this book.

Simplified to the point of understandability but not so much that the content becomes meaningless. I think it took great effort to put these highly complex themes into a text that can be grasped by the non-scientist. It is well done.

Deeper and more journalistic than expected. Deeper: while not requiring any calculus and filled with plenty of simple analogies, the topic is just so mind bending and counter-intuitive that a background, at least in reading pop books on the subjects of math, general relativity, and quantum mechanics is a must to make sense of this.

Journalistic: this could easily have been a filled with conclusions about what rejecting locality means, and certainly there was plenty of it, but it was *reported* upon, instead of judged by Mr. Musser. This book tells us where researchers and thinkers are on this difficult topic without trying to sum it up in some simple take away or filter it through Musser's understanding. Rare and professional in pop-science books.

Fascinating read, but like all pop sci non-fic it skims the surface without giving the satisfaction that would come from doing the math, but then this is not a fault of the book but of the reader (ie. me).

If you're ready for a heavy dose of mind expansion, this is the book for you!

I was hoping to learn more about experimental demonstrations of entanglement. That is not what this book is about. This book quotes as many philosophers as physicists. This is a book that describes scientific concepts so qualitatively and metaphorically that you don't actually learn anything about the subject matter. Perhaps the subject matter of this book is so complex that anything other than a completely qualitative & metaphorical treatment is not even worth attempting for a general audience. However, if that's the case, it would have been better to write nothing than to put out this unsatisfying work. If you just want to pick up some buzz words to show people that you are a pretentious pretender to knowledge, this is probably your sort of book.

A pretty fair book on what I think is one of the most interesting topics in modern physics. This is emphatically for the general reader. There were quite a few places where I felt like I was being invited to think "Gosh, physics is weird", where I would really have appreciated some more technical detail to get a better grasp of the concepts. There were also times, though, when the id as were conveyed with a clarity and imagination I appreciated. Well worth a read.