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Browsing the Internet, I find awkward titles like 'Quantum mechanics for beginners', 'Quantum physics for beginners' and even 'Quantum physics for dummies'. Well, I assure you, quantum physics is definitely not a subject for dummies. If you really want to understand the message of the quantum world then you will have to think and ponder long and deep. When you hear or read something like 'A quantum object is at the same time a particle and a wave' and you don't feel the slightest urge to tackle that paradox, I doubt you will ever master the real message of quantum physics. I recommend that, when you really want to make the contents of this book part of your intellectual property, read, re-read, and re-read again. Save the parts that do not really seem to land safely on first reading just for later and move on to the chapter conclusion. You can always pick up later. Take your time.

Newly introduced concepts will be explained in detail when introduced for the first time. Further on in the book, when a concept comes up again, it will be highlighted with a link to the glossary. You will find there a concise explanation as well as a link back to the page where the concept was introduced first. This can be of great help when you encounter the concept somewhere and you would like to refresh your memory anew.

Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the beginning and development of classical Newtonian physics until the moment that quantum physics made its ground-breaking entry at the start of the 20^th century.

Chapter 4 and 5 are about how the quantum phenomena confronted the physicists with baffling problems and how they tried to deal with that.

Chapter 6 deals with eight of the most common quantum hypotheses and seven important experiments. Each experiment is carefully weighted concerning the significance of its results for the sustainability of those eight key hypotheses.

Chapter 7 deals in rigorous detail with the delayed choice experiments and explains and defends their logical implications for our concept of objective reality.

Chapters 8 to 10 discusses the possible connections between information, entropy and consciousness, the elusiveness of the photon and the character of time.

Chapter 11 is dedicated to that highly interesting new branch of biology, quantum biology, with emphasis on quantum tunneling in living systems.

Chapter 12 speculates about possible models of reality that could explain consciousness and its relationship with our experienced reality.

Chapter 13 deals with some proposals for experiments to falsify the models presented in chapter 12.

Chapter 14 deals with the concept of consilience and why that is an important way of mutually affirming scientific confirmation for the existence of a consciousness being independent of the body.

In the appendices you will find:

• Some isolated treatises on certain aspects in quantum physics which, while important, may have interrupted the continuity in the main text,

• How this book came about,

• A list of recommended literature and other media.

There is no notes section in the book. There is a better way in an e-book. In the text you will find numbered underlined links in italic to relevant content on the Internet. When clicked on, relevant content will be opened in your default Internet browser. On my website https://quantumphysics-consciousness.eu/index.php/references-to-internet-content/ you will find all actual numbered references to internet content, should links be broken.

The most important thing through almost the entire book is to try to understand the workings and implications of the double-slit experiment.