From then on, our greatest natural philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, and scientists, from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking, have been stymied-and driven-by infinity. Acclaimed Science writer Richard Morris guides us on a fascinating, literate and entertaining tour of the efforts made throughout history to make sense of the mind-bending concept of the infinite. In tracing this quest, Morris shows us how each new encounter with infinity drove the advancement of physics and mathematics.
Beginning with simple logical puzzles and progressing to the latest cosmological theories, Morris shows how these same infinity problems helped spawn such groundbreaking scientific developments as relativity and quantum mechanics. Though in many ways, the infinite is just as baffling today as it was in antiquity, contemporary scientists are probing ever deeper into the nature of our universe and catching fleeting glimpses of the infinite in ways the ancients could never have imagined.
Ultimately, we see that hidden within the theoretical possibility of an infinite number of universes may lie the answers to some of humankind's most fundamental questions: Why is there something rather than nothing?
Why are we here? You Cat is Dead: Unlocking the Secrets to the Quantum Universe reveals the secret codes to the world around us from the nature of the subatomic world to our entire universe. As a scientific book written in plain language by an every day nuclear engineer and physicist, this is a must - have book, not only for scholars and students, but for all types of readers. This book answers a collective hunger for a new direction in science in a final attempt to do the unthinkable - to explain and understand everything in the universe.
Your Cat is Dead is a blueprint for finally understanding what He God thinks. The never before presented ideas and theories in this book will lay the groundwork for a unified theory in a context that even Einstein would enjoy. A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
Fiction in the Quantum Universe. In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald. The Quantum Universe. Das Geheimnis der Quantenwelt. The Computing Universe. This exciting and accessible book takes us on a journey from the early days of computers to the cutting-edge research of the present day that will shape computing in the coming decades.
It introduces a fascinating cast of dreamers and inventors who brought these great technological developments into every corner. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! For so long the province of mathematicians and physicists alone, the beauty and significance of quantum mechanics has remained hidden to the nonspecialist.
Yet its impact on technology has been enormous. The modern electronics industry with the silicon chip that has revolutionised so many aspects of modern life owes its existence to an understanding of the quantum nature of semiconductors. The text explains exactly what quantum mechanics is in a simple nonmathematical way, and is complemented throughout by many superb colour and black-and-white photographs illustrating the varied facets of quantum phenomena.
The Quantum Universe will provide a fascinating and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific disciplines of the twentieth century.
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