Decoding Reality by Vedral, Vlatko;

The Universe as Quantum Information

Sorozatcím: Oxford Landmark Science;

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A termék adatai:

Kiadó OUP Oxford
Megjelenés dátuma 2018. február 8.

ISBN 9780198815433
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem256 oldal
Méret 196x130x15 mm
Súly 190 g
Nyelv angol

Kategóriák

A természettudományok általános kérdései, tudománytörténet, tudományfilozófia A számítástudomány elmélete, a számítástechnika általában Kvantumfizika (kvantummechanika)

Rövid leírás:

In this engaging and mind-stretching book, Vlatko Vedral explores the nature of information and looks at quantum computing, discussing the bizarre effects that arise from the quantum world. He concludes by asking the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from?

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Hosszú leírás:

For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic forms to future generations using a four-letter digital code called DNA.

In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. He explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. He describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour -- effects such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance', and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach into the macro world.

Vedral finishes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers he considers are exhilarating, drawing upon the work of distinguished physicist John Wheeler. The ideas challenge our concept of the nature of particles, of time, of determinism, and of reality itself.

This edition includes a new foreword from the author, reflecting on changes in the world of quantum information since first publication.

Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

By turns irreverent, erudite and funny, Decoding Reality is - by the standard of books that require their readers to know what a logarithm is - a ripping good read...Not since David Deutsch's magestierial 'The Fabric of Reality' has a physicist given us such a wide-ranging and intriguing picture of how quantum mechanics constructs the world.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Prologue
Creation Ex Nihilo: Something from Nothing
Information for all Seasons
Part One
Back to basics: Bits and Pieces
Digital Romance: Life is a Four-Letter Word
Murphy's Law: I Knew this Would Happen to Me
Place Your Bets: In It to Win It
Social Informatics: Get Connected or Die Tryin'
Part Two
Quantum Schmuntum: Lights, Camera, Action!
Surfing the Waves: Hyper-Fast Computers
Children of the Aimless Chance: Randomness versus Determinism
Part Three
Sand Reckoning: Whose Information is It, Anyway?
Destruction ab Toto: Nothing from Something
Epilogue
Notes
Index