For a physicist all the world is information The Universe & its workings are the ebb & 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 & mind-stretching account Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe & considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information He explains the nature of information the idea of entropy & 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& & explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantumeffects in hyperfast quantum computers & 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 & 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 & shaped the way we think