Quantum theory can hurt you!

Been reading this book on the way to the office every morning, which I got from Waterstones. I have been quite interested in this sort of books - teaching / talking about hardcore science in a more easily to be understood and interesting way. "Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You" by Marcus Chown is the first ebook I purchased. I think he belongs to the same category of Simon Singh and Bill Bryson.

Allow me to quote a phrase from the book:
Atoms and their kin can do many impossible things before breakfast. For instance, they can be in two or more places at once, penetrate impenetrable barriers, and know about each other instantly even when on different sides of the universe. They are also totally unpredictable, doing things for no reason at all -- perhaps the most shocking and unsettling of all their characteristics.

OK, I don't understand all what he said in the book - even though he has tried to use the most plain description and some very realistic examples in real life for explanation. However, I do know a bit now what the whole new generation of physic Quantum something something something is about. I am quickly hooked by for example "telepathic", "breaking time-distance limit barrier for information transmission", "parallel universe" sort of things mentioned in the book. And, they are not science-fiction, they are science!