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Bezig met laden... Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries (1995)door John Gribbin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. NOTE: I am storing this here because I don't yet own a copy of the book being reviewed (and because I think some people who've read Schoedinger's Kittens might like to see this)! Here is a translation of Marghe48's (Italian) review of Carlo Rovelli, 'Helgoland:' Psychedelic is an adjective that is encountered more than once in this text and is actually absorbed by a whirlwind and all-encompassing experience that projects us out of ourselves. It's not exactly easy to read but, ultimately, this isn't a problem. Rovelli has the gift of a writing tinged with humor, as is usually found in good, or excellent, Anglo-Saxon communicators and with a lot of grace accompanies the reader along a dizzying path without ever making him feel inadequate even if something, and even more than something, escapes his understanding. It also invites you to skip some parts if you are afraid of finding yourself in too adventurous paths and getting lost in excessively subtle ruminations. In short, he is nice and not snooty. This keeps you nailed to the text even if the understanding is not total (this is my case). I followed the explanation of physical phenomena without excessive difficulty, while the discourse on the integration between the physical world and the mental world was more difficult for me (p. 173: "there is continuity between the world of meanings of our mental life and the world physical. The one and the other are relationships "). However, what particularly gratified me is not so much the exhumation of very distant and approximate high school notions, buried in the maze of memory, as the possibility of reflecting on the fallout, or rather on interaction, of the discoveries of quantum physics on contemporary culture. For me, who come from a humanistic background, a whole series of discussions and cultural issues unfold in front of my eyes that focus precisely on the reality / interpretation opposition and interconnection (eg: structuralism, deconstructionism, postmodernism). The entire cultural background of the twentieth century - philosophical, literary, anthropological, artistic - is coherently framed against the unavoidable background of the discoveries of quantum physics (p. 127: "And to think that today someone sees natural sciences, human sciences and literature as impervious areas. 'one to the other ... ”). Really exciting for a humanist, who can finally feel not a useless appendage, almost a parasite in a world dominated by science and technology, but an integral part of a way of seeing and interpreting the world that concerns us all. (4 stars). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light. Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John 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 ends of the universe. In this way Gribbin introduces the reader to such new developments as quantum cryptography, through which unbreakable codes can be made, and goes on to possible future developments such as the idea that the ¿entanglement' of quantum particles could be a way to build a STAR TREK style teleportation machine. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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