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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
January 30, 2007

Pages
  
304 pp.

Originally published
  
30 January 2007

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Country
  
United States of America


Publisher
  
Viking/Penguin Group

Media type
  
Print, e-book

ISBN
  
978-0143038399

Author
  
Charles Seife

Subject
  
Information theory

Preceded by
  
Alpha & Omega (2000)

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Similar
  
Charles Seife books, Science books, Non-fiction books

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes is the third non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife. The book was initially published on January 30, 2007 by Viking.

Contents

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Synopsis

In this book Seife concentrates on the information theory, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and quantum mechanics, works of Turing and Schrödinger, entropy and superposition, etc.

Review

The cosmos, as Seife depicts it, is a great big information swap meet. Objects enormous and minuscule are always encountering other objects and being affected by them in such a way that they “gather information” — not consciously, of course, but in the way that the mercury collected information about my boiling syrup. A pool ball that’s hit by another pool ball receives information about the speed and direction of the ball that hit it. Subatomic particles do the same. Of course, subatomic particles do a lot of things that are much more baffling than this, like existing in two different places at the same time until someone or something tries to locate them. But, as Seife argues, information still lies at the root of all this. “Decoding the Universe” offers a history of the development of information theory, too, beginning with the cryptographers of World War II.

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References

Decoding the Universe Wikipedia