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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat
Updated EditionIn Search Of Schrödinger’s Cat is a primer for the magical, near inexplicable world of quantum mechanics; where cats are both dead and alive, and electrons can be in all places at once until you look at them. Mind-blowing.
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Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits
The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary ScienceJohn Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (then under the leadership of Fred Hoyle) before working as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. He is the author of several bestselling popular science books, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Science: A History, In Search of the Multiverse, Quantum Computing, and Six Impossible Things. He is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Qed
The Strange Theory of Light and MatterQuantum electrodynamics - or QED for short - is the theory that explains how light and electrons interact, and in doing so illuminates the mysteries of the world around us. This book uses examples to provide the definitive introduction to QED.
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Ten Tantalising Truths
Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple QuestionsGribbin takes each point and uses it both to bring in some history of science and to dive into a little more depth, while staying approachable
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Nine Musings on Time
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth about Time TravelTime travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?
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Eight Improbable Possibilities
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific TruthsA mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
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Against the Odds
Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female scientist would have been regarded as something of an oxymoron.From bestselling and award-winning science writers John and Mary Gribbin, Against the Odds highlights the achievements of women who overcame hurdles and achieved scientific success (although not always as much as they deserved) in spite of male prejudice, as society changed over about 150 years, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.There is Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect; Chien-Shiung Wu, who discovered the law which allows matter to exist in the Universe today; and Barbara McClintock, who discovered how genes turn on and off.With a foreword from astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, this book is not only a cautionary tale about the stifling effects of prejudice against women in science, but a celebration of those who achieved success against the odds - and an inspiration for the next generation.
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Six Impossible Things
A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physics. Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves--or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account "agnostic," explaining that none of these interpretations is any better--or any worse--than any of the others.Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed "excess baggage" by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation ("incoherent"); the Ensemble "Non-Interpretation"; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others--but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
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Against the Odds
Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female scientist would have been regarded as something of an oxymoron.From bestselling and award-winning science writers John and Mary Gribbin, Against the Odds highlights the achievements of women who overcame hurdles and achieved scientific success (although not always as much as they deserved) in spite of male prejudice, as society changed over about 150 years, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.There is Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect; Chien-Shiung Wu, who discovered the law which allows matter to exist in the Universe today; and Barbara McClintock, who discovered how genes turn on and off. With a foreword from astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, this book is not only a cautionary tale about the stifling effects of prejudice against women in science, but a celebration of those who achieved success against the odds - and an inspiration for the next generation.
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Her Seyin Nedeni
Bilimin neden sorusuyla degil nasil sorusuyla ilgilendigi artik arkaik bir görüs. Günümüzde bilim her seyin nedenini arastiriyor. Neden yasam var Neden Dünya bu sekilde Neden zekiyiz Neden uzayda baska zeki canlilara rastlamadik Bu ve benzeri binlerce neden sorusu artik bilimin ilgi odaginda. Sorulara cevap buldukca yeni sorular geliyor elbette. Ama Gribbinin bu kitabi biliminin günümüzdeki sinirlarini gösteriyor. Bu kitapta yanitlari verilen ve verilemeyen en temel sorulari bulabilirsiniz.Her Seyin Nedeni, Dünyanin evrendeki yerini sorguluyor. Milyarlarcasinin icinde tek bir gezegen fark yaratabilir mi Gribbin bunun mümkün olabilecegini savunuyor. Örnegin Dünyadaki yasami etkileyen en önemli olaylardan biri 600 milyon yil önce Venüse bir süper kuyruklu yildizcarpmasi. Gribbin bunun gibi örneklerle, Dünyadaki zeki yasami etkileyen kozmik olaylari inceliyor.Yüzün üzerinde popüler bilim kitabinin yazari Gribbin, Her Seyin Nedeninde okurlarina kapsamli ve lirik bir inceleme sunuyor. Lewis Dartnell, Times Higher EducationKopernikten bu yana Evrenin merkezi olmadigimizi biliyoruz Gribbin yasamin da siradan bir doga olayi oldugunu gösteriyor. -ScienceUzay ve zamana yayilan olaganüstü bir öykü Bu kitap pes pese gelen kozmik olaylarin Dünyayi nasil yasam icin uygun bir gezegen haline getirdigini anlatiyor.-Science Focus
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Ilk Sempanze
Insanlar sempanzelerden degil sempanzeler insandan türemislerdir.Insanlar ve kuyruksuz maymunlar bir atayi paylasirlar. Halk dilinde söylersek, kuyruksuz maymunlardan türemisiz.Ancak DNAmizin neredeyse hepsini sempanze ve gorillerle paylasiyor oldugunuza dair bulgular bizi yeniden düsünmeye zorlamaktadir.1997 yilinda Avustralya Ulusal Üniversitesinde en son moleküler biyoloji tekniklerini kullanilarak elde edilen DNA bulgularinin yorumlari, insan ile killi kuyruksuz maymunlar arasindaki genetik akrabaligin 3,6 ila 4 milyon yil önce ortak bir atayi paylastigiz yönünde oldugunu göstermistir.Bu sansasyonel bir haberdi, cünkü öne sürülen tarih atalarimizin dik yürümesini ögrenmelerinden sonrasina denk gelir.Bu demek oluyor ki, sempanze ve goriller de dik yürüyebilen kuyruksuz maymun benzeri bir yaratiktan yaygin kullanimiyla insansi maymun türemis, sonrasindaysa ormandaki yasamalarina geri dönerek dik yürüme özelliklerini yitirmislerdir.Yalnizca ortak atamizin cok daha genc, diger bir deyisle 20 degil 4 milyon yasinda olmasi degil, hikayenin tamami bastan yazilmalidir.4 milyon yasindaki bir kuyruksuz maymun dik yürüdü. Peki, neden kuyruksuz maymunlar agaclara geri dönerken insanlik büyük adimlarla ilerlemeye devam ettiDNAdaki yüzde birlik fark insan uygarliginin anahtari olabilir miTürkceye bircok kitabi cevrilen ünlü popüler bilim yazari astrofizikci Dr. John Gribbin ve hayvan davranis bilimcisi Dr. Jeremy Cherfas bilimin en zorlu dedektiflik hikayesinin, bizlerin ortaya cikis hikayesinin izini sürüyorlar.
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Schrödingerin Yavru Kedileri
Bilim tarihinin süphesiz en meshur kedilerinden olan Schrödingerin kedisi bilim insanlarinin zihnini yeterince kurcalamamis gibi, simdi de bu adsiz kahramanin ikiz yavrularinin rol aldigi bir baska düsünce deneyi bizleri benzer bir muammayla karsi karsiya birakiyor.Ingiliz bilim yazari John Gribbin, Schrödingerin Kedisinin Pesinde adli basarili kitabinin devami niteliginde olan bu kitapta, kuantum dünyasinin tuhafliklarini irdelemeye ve bunlara iliskin farkli yorumlari ele almaya devam ediyor. Gribbinin kendi ifadesiyle, kuantum tartismasini anlamak icin bilmeniz gereken her seyi burada bulacaksiniz; ayni anda iki ayri yerde olabilen fotonlar gibi görünüste paradoksal fenomenleri, ayni anda iki yöne giden atomlari, isik hiziyla hareket eden bir parcacik icin zamanin nasil durdugunu ve kuantum kuraminin Uzay Yoluvari bir isinlamayi mümkün kilabilecegine dair ciddi bir yorumu okuyacaksiniz.Gribbinin gayet anlasilir ve esprili bir dille kaleme aldigi bu ilginc kitabi kuantum dünyasiyla uzaktan yakindan ilgilenen tüm okurlarimiza tavsiye ediyoruz.
€ 15,99