The Quantum World: The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality

New Scientist

  • 出版商: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • 出版日期: 2017-05-16
  • 售價: $840
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$798
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 240
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1857886682
  • ISBN-13: 9781857886689
  • 相關分類: 量子 Quantum
  • 相關翻譯: 科學速讀 量子物理新話 修訂版 (簡中版)
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商品描述

Just how real is reality, anyway?

Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.

The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behavior according to whether they are being watched.

This is not some alternative universe but the realm of the very small, where quantum mechanics rules. In this weird world of atoms and their constituents, our common sense understanding of reality breaks down - yet quantum mechanics has never failed an experimental test.

What does it all mean?

For all its weirdness, quantum mechanics has given us many practical technologies including lasers and the transistors that underlie computers and all digital technology. In the future, it promises computers more powerful than any built before, the ability to communicate with absolute privacy, and even quantum teleportation.

The Quantum World explores the past, present and future of quantum science, its applications and mind-bending implications. Discover how ideas from quantum mechanics are percolating out into the vast scale of the cosmos - perhaps, in the future, to reveal a new understanding of the big bang and the nature of space and time.

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商品描述(中文翻譯)

現實到底有多真實呢?忘記你對現實的所有認知吧。

這個世界是一個非常奇異的地方。事物可以同時存在於兩個地方,並且可以在時間上前後移動。波動和粒子是同一個東西,物體的行為會根據是否被觀察而改變。

這不是另一個宇宙,而是量子力學統治的領域。在這個奇怪的原子和其組成部分的世界中,我們對現實的常識理解崩潰了 - 然而量子力學從未在實驗測試中失敗過。

這一切意味著什麼呢?儘管奇怪,量子力學給我們帶來了許多實用技術,包括激光和構成計算機和所有數字技術基礎的晶體管。在未來,它承諾將帶來比以往任何計算機更強大的計算機,能夠實現絕對隱私的通信,甚至量子傳輸。

《量子世界》探索了量子科學的過去、現在和未來,以及其應用和令人難以置信的影響。發現量子力學的思想如何滲透到宇宙的廣闊尺度中 - 或許在未來,揭示出對宇宙大爆炸和空間時間本質的新理解。

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作者簡介(中文翻譯)

自從1956年發行第一本雜誌以來,New Scientist 在探索和揭示科學和技術領域的最新發展和發現方面建立了世界領先的聲譽,並將它們置於背景中,探索它們對未來的意義。通過各種不同的渠道,包括印刷、網絡、社交媒體等,每週 New Scientist 吸引超過四百萬高度參與的讀者,其中單單印刷雜誌就有超過一百萬讀者。