Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking

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Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking

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Quantum theorist Erwin Schrodinger invented his now-famous cat to illustrate the apparently impossible conundrums associated with quantum physics. The cat lives in an opaque box with a fiendish device that randomly feeds it either food, allowing it to live, or poison, which kills it. But in the quantum world, all possibilities coexist and have a reality of their own, and they ensure that the cat is both alive and dead, simultaneously.

Who's Afraid of Schrodinger's Cat? is a clear, concise explanation of the new sciences of quantum mechanics, chaos and complexity theory, relativity, new theories of mind, and the new cosmology. It studies worlds beyond the realm of common sense, and the new kinds of thinking that we need to understand ourselves, our minds, and our human place in the larger scheme of things.

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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
432

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First Sentence

"What are the building blocks out of which everything that exists is made?"

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7727211M
ISBN 10
0688161073
ISBN 13
9780688161071
LibraryThing
436489
Goodreads
74128

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3272460W

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{{cite book|author1=I. N. Marshall |author2=Ian Marshall |author3=Danah Zohar |date=July 8, 1998 |orig-date=1997 |title=Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat? An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking |publisher=Harper Perennial |isbn=978-0-688-16107-1 |ol=7727211M}}