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Dice World - Science and Life in a Random Universe (Paperback)
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Dice World - Science and Life in a Random Universe (Paperback)
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Price R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 WINTON ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE
BOOKS As troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern
science has repeatedly shown us that randomness is the underlying
heartbeat of nature. In Dice World, acclaimed science writer Brian
Clegg takes readers on an incredible trip around our random
universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and
statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every
great success in business, and demonstrating the possibilities
quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers and
undergoing teleportation. He explores how the 'clockwork universe'
imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given
enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos
theory and quantum physics. Clegg reveals a world in which not only
is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the
only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things.
Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World, a unique
portrait of a startlingly complex cosmos, from the bizarre
microscopic world of the quantum to the unfathomable mechanics of
planetary movements, where very little is as it seems...
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