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Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality John Gribbin

Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality By Gribbin John

Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin


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The author uses the story of two kittens separated at a young age and carried to opposite sides of the universe to introduce new developments in physics such as quantum cryptography, in which codes that are permanently unbreakable can be made using quantum effects.

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Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: The Quantum Mysteries Solved by John Gribbin

Gribbin presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques that have enabled physicists to formulate and test new theories about the nature of light. He describes these theories not in terms of hard-to-imagine entities like spinning subnuclear particles, but in terms of the fate of two small cats separated at a tender age and carried to opposite sides of the universe. In this way Gribbin introduces the reader to such new developments as quantum cryptography, in which codes that are permanently unbreakable can be made using quantum effects. He goes on to possible future developments, such as the idea that the "entanglement" of quantum particles could be a way to build a teleportation machine - "beam me up Scotty" could really happen.

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GOR001077675
9780297815198
0297815199
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: The Quantum Mysteries Solved by John Gribbin
Used - Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
1995-03-23
272
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