The Second Quantum Revolution : From Entanglement to Quantum Computing and Other Super-Technologies /: From Entanglement to Quantum Computing and Other Super-Technologies. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lars Jaeger.
• Authors: Jaeger, Lars
• Contents: Prologue: The white rabbit.- Part 1: Quantum 2.0 – The second technological revolution arising from the quantum world: Mighty power – How a theory of the microcosm changed our world.-There's plenty of room at the bottom – A new generation of quantum technologies.- Technology on the smallest scales – The possibilities of nanotechnology.- Incredibly fast – From digital to the quantum computer.- Part 2: Quantum Worlds – The bizarre in the very small: Contradictory atoms – Philosophical problems with the smallest building blocks of nature.- Natura facit saltus – On quantum jumps and particles being made out of nothing.- Tertium datur – Wave and particles at the same time.- As well as neither/-nor – Superposition: how things can be here and there at the same time.- Loss of identity – The New Reality Concept of Quantum Physics and its Consequences.- Part 3: From Quantum Field Theories to a "Theory of Everything" – All matter dissolves: Negative energies and the electron spin – Combining the theory of relativity to produce a new quantum theory.- Quantum field theories – All matter dissolves.- Infinity minus infinity gives something finite – How physicists learnt to deal with infinitely large values in the infinitely small.- More and more particles – From the particle zoo to the standard model of elementary particle physics.- Einstein does not fit – The fundamental problem in physics today.- Part 4: Cutting across philosophical, aesthetic, and spiritual, frames of thought: The Path towards Substancelessness – Breaking with 2, 600 years of philosophical thought.- A New Understanding of Truth – How quantum physics made absolute reality disappear, and with it absolute truth.- The eternal interplay – Surprising overlaps between quantum physics and Buddhism.- Symmetries – Beauty in the House of Physics.- Quantum Consciousness and the Tao of Physics - On quantum holism, quantum healing, and other quantum nonsense.- Quantum physics and faith– Explaining the inexplicable.- Part 5: Entanglement – getting to the crux of the matter: The destinies of cats – The quantum physical measurement problem.- Wigner´s Friend – Quantum physics and consciousness.- EPR and Hidden Variables – The debate about spooky action at a distance.- The experimental resolution of the Bohr- Einstein debate – How entangled particles made their way from theory into practice.- The Age of Entanglement – From spooks to a new quantum revolution.- Schrödinger's cat is alive – The path back to classical physics.- Part 6: The future – Where are we going?: Quantum Revolution 2.0 – When nanobots and quantum computers become part of our everyday lives.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 530.12; Quantum theory -- Popular works; High technology -- Popular works; Quantum computing -- Popular works; Technological forecasting; SCIENCE / Energy; SCIENCE / Mechanics / General; SCIENCE / Physics / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319988245; 3319988247
• Related ISBNs: 9783319988238
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019).
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