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The Fabric of Reality

By David Deutsch

Book information

Publisher
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year
1998
ISBN
014027541X, 9780140275414
Open Library ID
OL7351966M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
1 MB (1142186 bytes)
Pages
\0
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Deutsch's pioneering and accessible book integrates recent advances in theoretical physics and computer science to explain and connect many topics at the leading edge of current research and thinking, such as quantum computers, and physics of time travel, and the ultimate fate of the universe.Amazon.com Review "Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense," writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality , Deutsch traces what he considers the four main strands of scientific explanation: quantum theory, evolution, computation, and the theory of knowledge. "The four of them taken together form a coherent explanatory structure that is so far-reaching, and has come to encompass so much of our understanding of the world, that in my view it may already properly be called the first Theory of Everything." Deutsch covers some difficult material with unusual clarity. Each chapter ends with a summary and definitions of important terms, which makes the work an invaluable sourcebook.

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