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Well written and engaging, the book provides a constant flow of new ideas. (Science )
The author evinces great enthusiasm and curiosity throughout. (Steven Poole, The Guardian )
By turns irreverent, erudite and funny, 'Decoding Reality' is...a ripping good read. (Seth Lloyd, New Scientist )
A wide-ranging and intriguing picture of how quantum mechanics constructs the world. (Seth Lloyd, New Scientist )
Excellent, thought-provoking book. (BBC Focus Magazine, Marcus Chown )
ADVANCE PRAISE: An engaging, non-technical exploration of what the new theory of quantum information and computation tells us about life, the universe, and everything. (David Deutsch, author of The Fabric of Reality )
ADVANCE PRAISE: Let Vedral guide you skilfully through the wonderland of modern physics - where nothing is as it seems. This is the finest treatment I have read of the weird interplay of quantum reality, information and probability. (Paul Davies, author of The Eerie Silence and The Goldilocks Enigma )
The author evinces great enthusiasm and curiosity throughout. (Steven Poole, The Guardian )
By turns irreverent, erudite and funny, 'Decoding Reality' is...a ripping good read. (Seth Lloyd, New Scientist )
A wide-ranging and intriguing picture of how quantum mechanics constructs the world. (Seth Lloyd, New Scientist )
Excellent, thought-provoking book. (BBC Focus Magazine, Marcus Chown )
ADVANCE PRAISE: An engaging, non-technical exploration of what the new theory of quantum information and computation tells us about life, the universe, and everything. (David Deutsch, author of The Fabric of Reality )
ADVANCE PRAISE: Let Vedral guide you skilfully through the wonderland of modern physics - where nothing is as it seems. This is the finest treatment I have read of the weird interplay of quantum reality, information and probability. (Paul Davies, author of The Eerie Silence and The Goldilocks Enigma )
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For a physicist, all the world's information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic forms to future generations using a four-letter digital code called DNA. In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. He explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. He describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour - effects such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance' and explores cutting edge work on the harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach into the macro world. Vedral finishes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers he considers are exhilarating, drawing upon the work of distinguished physicist John Wheeler. The ideas challenge our concept of the nature of particles, of time, of determinism, and of reality itself.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book contains no equations or formulae: fair enough. But it also contains no diagrams or pictures. This means that the book depends entirely on the author's ability to explain things in prose. This is a tall order for such an arcane subject, and unfortunately the author doesn't really succeed in conveying concepts clearly. I ploughed through about three-quarters of it, but increasingly felt I was not being given an adequate understanding of the matters under discussion.
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Inteligent, entertaining, informative, engaging..
Decoding Reality is the best popular-scientific book I've ever read about quantum information .
Professor Vedral debates about the world in terms of information.
He shows it's all about information, every aspect of science, life,economy..
The book has changed the way I see the Universe and the way I think about it.
Definitely a book to read!
Decoding Reality is the best popular-scientific book I've ever read about quantum information .
Professor Vedral debates about the world in terms of information.
He shows it's all about information, every aspect of science, life,economy..
The book has changed the way I see the Universe and the way I think about it.
Definitely a book to read!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The first parts of this book introduce ideas about information as a fundamental of physics. The later parts expand on this, suggesting that information might just be THE fundamental upon which all other physics - indeed all other full stop! - is based and from which it comes. The author is pleasingly clear in differentiating where he is teaching accepted - but still amazing! - facts and where he is speculating. One gets the impression that the text books of 2100 just might have moved much of the material from this last category into the first!
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The Universe as Quantum Information
This is a very readable book,clearly written. I chose it because I have published papers on the use of entropy to accurately predict the masses of the stable elementary particles... Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. A. De Wet
A very thought provoking book
Some familiarity with quantum physics might help in reading this book if you are a first timer, but it does explain things cogently and in a progressive manner if you are a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by JT
A Realistic Appraisal of Decoding Reality
Vlatko Vedral has written a clear and concise explanation of the contribution made by information theory to our attempts to understand quantum theory and the cosmos. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Sunflowers
Dull , big disappointment
A very dull Book, could easily be condensed into something much shorter.
Seems to have had a lot of advanced publicity , hype.
Seems to have had a lot of advanced publicity , hype.
Published 17 months ago by rdmull
Information as a means of addressing the Big Questions
The author takes us on a tour through a variety of scientific topics, always anchored around the concept that information - which the author defines and explains - is the basis of... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Andy
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
An excellent book which is full of powerful insights that explains an awful lot, in simple terms, without having to wade through mind numbing maths!
Published 18 months ago by Mr. J. H. Horsler
Great!
I purchase this book because Professor Vedral words are very close to master Kryon words ... about Quantum Reality.
I don't open yet.
I don't open yet.
Published 19 months ago by Giovanni A. Orlando
The Economist is Right...
I read the book as a layman led by his musings down the path that Vedral suggests. I was seeking a substantiation that perhaps given the subject can never be found. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Gareth M. Davies
"Frustrated" of Tunbridge Wells
There MUST be an interesting book on this subject area... but this isn't it. Shoddy writing, with points poorly or innaccurately made - at times downright wrong, especially where... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Jeffrey Cuttell
Information the basis of physical reality:a hypothesis
In this slim volume the author, an Oxford Professor of Quantum Information Science, proposes the original hypothesis that information comprises the basis of physical reality. Read more
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