Decoding Reality The Universe as Quantum Information

by Vedral, Vlatko

• ISBN13: 9780199237692
• ISBN10: 0199237697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

These are the deepest questions that humans have asked, that thinkers East and West have pondered over the centuries. In this exhilarating book, spanning betting strategies in casinos to quantum teleportation, Vlatko Vedral shows how, through the profound concept of information, we can begin to understand the structure of the universe, and glimpse the very fabric of reality. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Vlatko Vedral studied undergraduate theoretical physics at Imperial College London, where he also received a PhD for his work on 'Quantum Information Theory of Entanglement'. Since June 2009, Vedral has moved to Oxford as Professor of Quantum Information Science. Throughout his career he has held a number of visiting professorships at different international institutions. He has published more than 130 research papers and has written two textbooks. He has written for popular science journals and major daily newspapers, as well as doing extensive radio programmes and television interviews.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
Creation Ex Nihilo: Something from Nothing	p. 5
Information for all Seasons	p. 14
	p. 25
Back to Basics: Bits and Pieces	p. 25
Digital Romance: Life is a Four-Letter Word	p. 37
Murphy's Law: I Knew this Would Happen to Me	p. 57
Place Your Bets: In It to Win It	p. 77
Social Informatics; Get Connected or Die Tryin'	p. 91
	p. 111
Quantum Schmuntum: Lights, Camera, Action!	p. 116
Surfing the Waves: Hyper-Fast Computers	p. 134
Children of the Aimless Chance: Randomness versus Determinism	p. 152
	p. 171
Sand Reckoning: Whose Information is It, Anyway?	p. 173
Destruction ab Toto: Nothing from Something	p. 189
Epilogue	p. 215
Notes	p. 219
Index	p. 227
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