Decoding Reality : the Universe As Quantum Information.
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?
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2012.
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Colección: | Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Creation ex nihilo : something from nothing
- Information for all seasons
- 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'
- Quantum schmuntum : lights, camera, action!
- Surfing the waves : hyper-fast computers
- Children of the aimless chance : randomness versus determinism
- Sand reckoning : whose information is it, anyway?
- Destruction ab toto : nothing from something.