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Decoding Reality : The Universe As Quantum Information.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Landmark Science SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192552990
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Decoding RealityDDC classification:
  • 530.1
LOC classification:
  • Q360 .V43 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Author information -- Praise page -- Decoding Reality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 Creation Ex Nihilo: Something from Nothing -- 2 Information for all Seasons -- Part One -- 3 Back to Basics: Bits and Pieces -- 4 Digital Romance: Life is a Four-Letter Word -- 5 Murphy's Law: I Knew this Would Happen to Me -- 6 Place Your Bets: In It to Win It -- 7 Social Informatics: Get Connected or Die Tryin' -- Part Two -- 8 Quantum Schmuntum: Lights, Camera, Action! -- 9 Surfi ng the Waves: Hyper-Fast Computers -- 10 Children of the Aimless Chance: Randomness versus Determinism -- Part Three -- 11 Sand Reckoning: Whose Information is It, Anyway? -- 12 Destruction ab Toto: Nothing from Something -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Author information -- Praise page -- Decoding Reality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 Creation Ex Nihilo: Something from Nothing -- 2 Information for all Seasons -- Part One -- 3 Back to Basics: Bits and Pieces -- 4 Digital Romance: Life is a Four-Letter Word -- 5 Murphy's Law: I Knew this Would Happen to Me -- 6 Place Your Bets: In It to Win It -- 7 Social Informatics: Get Connected or Die Tryin' -- Part Two -- 8 Quantum Schmuntum: Lights, Camera, Action! -- 9 Surfi ng the Waves: Hyper-Fast Computers -- 10 Children of the Aimless Chance: Randomness versus Determinism -- Part Three -- 11 Sand Reckoning: Whose Information is It, Anyway? -- 12 Destruction ab Toto: Nothing from Something -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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