A first picture book about wave-particle duality, for ages 5 to 9.
On a Diwali night, Dada-Bot sets up two narrow doors in a clay panel and a tray of mustard seeds. The same tiny thing acts as a drop through one door, and as a wave through two. A picture book about the second idea in quantum mechanics, set in the same fictional Indian temple-town bazaar as Book 1.
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Quanta is still eight years old. On Diwali night her grandfather, Dada-Bot, sets up a small experiment on the chai-stall rooftop: two narrow slits cut in a clay panel, a tray of mustard seeds, and a brass bowl of water. She learns that the same tiny thing, a single point of light or a single spark of a firework, can behave as a drop or as a wave depending on what doors you give it. It is the second idea in quantum mechanics, and it sets up the gates that come in Book 4.
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The story returns to Quantum Bazaar from Book 1. The chai stall, the brass-coin maker, the flower seller, and the small temple at the end of the lane are all here. The story takes place over a single afternoon and one Diwali night, with Dada-Bot setting up a small two-door experiment on the chai-stall rooftop.
Ages five to nine. Read-aloud for younger children. Independent reading from age seven. The English text sits at a Grade 2 reading age, with short sentences and a familiar refrain: sometimes a drop, sometimes a wave.
The recurring cast of the Quantum Bazaar Series. See the full cast page.
Main character, age eight. In this book she asks if light is a drop or a wave.
Grandfather robot. Sets up the rooftop two-door test on Diwali night.
Grandmother robot. Retired scientist. Brings the chai tray up to the rooftop.
Her cousin, same age. Fixes brass clocks and flies kites from the rooftop.
Aunt in Mylapore, Chennai. Holds the cotton sheet for the firework test.
The sleepy qubit. Nods solemnly on Quanta’s shoulder.
The loud qubit. Bounces with excitement when the many-bands pattern appears.
A black-and-white temple cat. She sleeps on the rooftop. She is always fine.
Strange and true. Pick a tile to flip it.
Real experiments with kitchen things.
A walking line through the wave-particle story from Newton to now.
Eight short questions from the book. Tap an answer for instant feedback.
1. Send one mustard seed through one door. You see...
2. Send many tiny lights through two doors. You see...
3. The many-bands pattern is the signature of a...
4. Cover one of the two doors. The pattern changes to...
5. Light is...
6. The Diwali firecracker test in the book is really the...
7. Does the same many-bands trick work with matter, like electrons?
8. The scientist who first did this with sunlight in 1801 was...
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This is the first story. The series takes a curious reader from her first qubit to a real quantum computer, one short picture book at a time, across quantum science, quantum technology, quantum electronics, quantum computing, quantum architecture and quantum computers.
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