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Carregando... Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinkide Ian Marshall
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Quantum theorist Erwin Schrvdinger invented his now-famous cat to illustrate the apparently impossible conundrums associated with quantum physics. The cat lives in an opaque box with a fiendish device that randomly feeds it either food, allowing it to live, or poison, which kills it. But in the quantum world, all possibilities coexist and have a reality of their own, and they ensure that the cat is both alive and dead, simultaneously. Who's Afraid of Schrvdinger's Cat? is a clear, concise explanation of the new sciences of quantum mechanics, chaos and complexity theory, relativity, new theories of mind, and the new cosmology. It studies worlds beyond the realm of common sense, and the new kinds of thinking that we need to understand ourselves, our minds, and our human place in the larger scheme of things. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Most of the time when a complex term is used, it will be defined within the segment, viz: "Morphognesis, or the growth of form...."
The real beauty of this book is that each section deals with ideas people may have heard of and want to know more about, but they will get explanations too complicated for novices by consulting Google or Wikipedia. Examples include Complexity Theory, Cybernetics, Godel's Theorem, Olber's Paradox, Planck's Constant, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Quantum Electrodynamics.
There are a few diagrams in the book, but few of them are illuminating - I imagine they were added for interest or to break up the text. No need for that though - the entries are short and sweet enough on their own.
Yes, science is developing new ideas all the time, but I wouldn't call this book "dated" at all, although it was published in 1997. Things haven't changed that much - the laws of physics are still the same! And while, for example, the Higgs boson wasn't found until 2012, its existence was theorized well before then, and you can read about it in this book.
A good resource for any library, especially for students! ( )