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The Second Quantum Revolution

Author : Lars Jaeger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319988245

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This book tells the story of the second quantum revolution which will shape the 21st century as much as the first quantum revolution shaped the 20th century. It provides unique orientation in today's discussion and the latest progress on the interpretation of quantum physics and its further technological potential. As you read this book the first prototypes of this revolution are being built in laboratories worldwide. Super-technologies such as nanotechnology, quantum computers, quantum information processing, and others will soon shape our daily lives, even if physicists themselves continue to disagree on how to interpret the central theory of modern physics. The book will thus also touch on the profound philosophical questions at the heart of quantum mechanics.

Helgoland

Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593328903

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Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian “Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman “One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal A startling new look at quantum theory, from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander. One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. As scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness. Rovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it.

The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy

Author : Richard Healey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191023446

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Quantum theory launched a revolution in physics. But we have yet to understand the revolution's significance for philosophy. Richard Healey opens a path to such understanding. Most studies of the conceptual foundations of quantum theory first try to interpret the theory - to say how the world could possibly be the way the theory says it is. But, though fundamental, quantum theory is enormously successful without describing the world in its own terms. When properly applied, models of quantum theory offer good advice on the significance and credibility of claims about the world expressed in other terms. This first philosophical lesson of the quantum revolution dissolves the quantum measurement problem. Pragmatist treatments of probability and causation show how quantum theory may be used to explain the non-localized correlations that have been thought to involve "spooky" instantaneous action at a distance. Given environmental decoherence, a pragmatist inferentialist approach to content shows when talk of quantum probabilities is licensed, resolves any residual worries about whether a quantum measurement has a determinate outcome, and solves a dilemma about the ontology of a quantum field theory. This approach to meaning and reference also reveals the nature and limits of objective description in the light of quantum theory. While these pragmatist approaches to probability, causation, explanation and content may be independently motivated by philosophical argument, their successful application here illustrates their practical importance in helping philosophers come to terms with the quantum revolution.

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446465714

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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin Pdf

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he started university in 1906, Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers on relativity. Now the baton of scientific progress was being passed to a new generation: Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, and of course, Schrödinger himself. In this riveting biography John Gribbin takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colourful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress). And with his trademark accessible style and popular touch, he explains the fascinating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science.

The Quantum Internet

Author : Peter P. Rohde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108491457

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A highly interdisciplinary overview of the emerging topic of the Quantum Internet. Current and future quantum technologies are covered in detail, in addition to their global socio-economic impact. Written in an engaging style and accessible to graduate students in physics, engineering, computer science and mathematics.

Quantum revolution

Author : Ganesan Venkataraman,G... Venkataraman
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Physics
ISBN : 8173710023

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Quantum revolution

Author : G. Venkataraman
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Quantum theory
ISBN : 817371004X

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Equivalence: A Quantum Revolution

Author : Mark Dalliston
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244615154

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Equivalence: A Quantum Revolution by Mark Dalliston Pdf

This is a work of science fiction more like ?2001: A Space Odyssey?, than ?Star Wars.? The ideas for this work came from the theories of relativity, quantum physics, and equivalence. It is a story of fictional theoretical physics. I initially thought that Equivalence would be the basis for another revolution of science. My change of mind was prompted by encountering a new theory that led to the general acceptance of parallel universes. Naturally, my take on this theory was different, and led me down an unexpected path.

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780345809124

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A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may illuminate our future--from Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behaviour of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science, plagued by intense disagreements between its intellectual giants, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, over the strange paradoxes and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's Schrödinger's cat--a creature that is simultaneously dead and alive--or a belief that the world does not exist independently of our observations of it, quantum theory is what challenges our fundamental assumptions about our reality. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, globally renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. There is more, waiting to be discovered. Our task--if we are to have simple answers to our simple questions about the universe we live in--must be to go beyond it to a description of the world on an atomic scale that makes sense. In this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed the field, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that they present. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories about the quantum world that might solve these problems, guiding us toward his own vision that embraces common sense realism. If we are to have any hope of completing the revolution that Einstein began nearly a century ago, we must go beyond quantum mechanics as we know it to find a theory that will give us a complete description of nature. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin brings us a step closer to resolving one of the greatest scientific controversies of our age.

Quantum revolution

Author : G. Venkataraman
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Quantum electrodynamics
ISBN : 8173710031

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Microcosm

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780671705923

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From Simon & Schuster, Microcosm is the provocative national bestseller by the author of Wealth and Poverty. George Gilder's Microcosm is the crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions, revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology.

Einstein Defiant

Author : Edmund Blair Bolles
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309167819

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"I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist." -Albert Einstein A scandal hovers over the history of 20th century physics. Albert Einstein-the century's greatest physicist-was never able to come to terms with quantum mechanics, the century's greatest theoretical achievement. For physicists who routinely use both quantum laws and Einstein's ideas, this contradiction can be almost too embarrassing to dwell on. Yet Einstein was one of the founders of quantum physics and he spent many years preaching the quantum's importance and its revolutionary nature. The Danish genius Neils Bohr was another founder of quantum physics. He had managed to solve one of the few physics problems that Einstein ever shied away from, linking quantum mathematics with a new model of the atom. This leap immediately yielded results that explained electron behavior and the periodic table of the elements. Despite their mutual appreciation of the quantum's importance, these two giants of modern physics never agreed on the fundamentals of their work. In fact, they clashed repeatedly throughout the 1920s, arguing first over Einstein's theory of "light quanta"(photons), then over Niels Bohr's short-lived theory that denied the conservation of energy at the quantum level, and climactically over the new quantum mechanics that Bohr enthusiastically embraced and Einstein stubbornly defied. This contest of visions stripped the scientific imagination naked. Einstein was a staunch realist, demanding to know the physical reasons behind physical events. At odds with this approach was Bohr's more pragmatic perspective that favored theories that worked, even if he might not have a corresponding explanation of the underlying reality. Powerful and illuminating, Einstein Defiant is the first book to capture the soul and the science that inspired this dramatic duel, revealing the personalities and the passions-and, in the end, what was at stake for the world.

The Quantum Revolution

Author : Kent A. Peacock
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313334481

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Presents a brief history of quantum mechanics, discussing key figures such as Einstein, Bohr, and Planck in the early twentieth century, looking at modern theories of quantum computing and quantum gravity, and including a time line.

The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy

Author : Richard Healey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198714057

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Quantum theory launched a revolution in physics. But we have yet to understand the revolution's significance for philosophy. Richard Healey opens a path to such understanding. The first part of this book offers a self-contained but opinionated introduction to quantum theory. The second part assesses the theory's philosophical significance.

The Quantum Revolution

Author : Teaches History Michael Wayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976679736

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A new positive future is emerging, and we have a golden opportunity to midwife it along. Make no mistake, there is much volatility in the air, and much to be concerned about. Yet, the future belongs to those who see what is upon us. More and more people are awakening to what this future is: it is a world of peace, of love, of a place where people act out of the greater good, where actions are based on how they impact future generations, and where things are valued if they give meaning. This is not some pipedream. It is a world in the making and this awakening is creating a revolution - the Quantum Revolution. This could be one of the greatest social and cultural transformations in history, with the potential to create a peaceful, just, holistic, compassionate and sustainable society and world for a long time. And you are invited to be a part of this revolution.