A marvelously clear and engaging account of the people and ideas involved in trying to understand the deepest mysteries of the quantum world and convert them into a useful technology.
-Gregory Chaitin, author of Meta Math! The Quest for Omega
If you thought science was a predictable commonsense business-maybe even a little dull-you haven't encountered quantum entanglement. A physical phenomenon so strange and all pervasive that this book calls it the 'God Effect,' entanglement leaves common sense shattered.
-from The God Effect
If you've ever wondered whether mankind might someday communicate across the vast distances between the stars, develop codes that cannot be broken, devise computers that would make finding a needle in a haystack trivial, or even learn to create teleportation, then the amazing science portrayed in Brian Clegg's The God Effect will astound and fascinate with its portrayal of a universe-our own-so strange that imagination can scarcely suffice to grasp it.
Publishers WeeklyScience writer Clegg (A Brief History of Infinity), discussing the field of quantum mechanics, asserts that [e]very experiment takes us a step closer to realizing just how strange the world is at the quantum level. Quantum entanglement is the oddest of them all. As Clegg explains it, entanglement occurs when two particles (photons, atoms, electrons, etc.) become so intensely linked together that for all intents and purposes they become part of one unit. The mystifying thing is that this link continues even if the two particles are in different parts of the universe: Make a change to one particle, and that change is instantly reflected in the other(s)-however far apart they may be. Clegg does an excellent job of explaining this complex situation in nontechnical terms; he details the many experiments that have consistently suggested that entanglement is real. The implications for future technological advances are huge, and Clegg is at his finest as he embeds potential advances in a broad historical context. Data could be encrypted in unbreakable codes; computers could become thousands of times more powerful than today; objects, and maybe even living organisms, could be instantaneously transported. While highly speculative, these possibilities could change our notion of reality. 27 b&w illus. (July 6) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Physics
- Quantum Theory
- Physics
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Author : Clegg, Brian
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2009-07-21
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 031255530X
ISBN-13 : 9780312555306
Item weight : 0.75 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.51 in x 8.43 in
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