quantum theory

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Programming the universe

a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos
2006
Traces the history and workings of the universe, including the Big Bang theory, and argues that particles in the universe convey information as well as energy.

The quantum world

quantum physics for everyone
2004
Presents an exploration of the subatomic world, explaining how the twentieth-century theories of quantum mechanics--the physics of the very small, and special relativity--the physics of the very fast, have changed the scientific understanding of matter.

The universe in a nutshell

2001
Physicist Stephen Hawking examines research conducted on the cosmos since his 1988 work "A Brief History of Time," seeking to combine Einstein's general theory of relativity with Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories to create a single theory that describes everything that happens in the universe.

Extreme physics

2008
Contains seven scientific essays that address topics of extreme physics, including wormholes, negative energy, String Theory, and more.

Beyond extreme physics

2008
Contains seven scientific essays that address topics of extreme physics, including black holes, inconstant constants, the String Theory, and more.

The last universe

2006
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

The basics of quantum physics

understanding the photoelectric effect and line spectra
2005
Simple introduction to the transition from classical, Newtonian physics to quantum physics.

The last universe

2005
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

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