Description: Title: Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information Author: Vedral, Vlatko Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Binding: Paperback Pages: 240 Dimensions: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d Product Weight: 0.25 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780198815433 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Decoding Reality : the Universe As Quantum Information
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Physics / Quantum Theory, Information Theory, General, Time, Physics / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Computers, Science
Item Weight: 6.9 Oz
Author: Vlatko Vedral
Item Length: 7.7 in
Book Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
