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Our Living Multiverse
A Book of Genesis in 0+7 Chapters author: Adams, Fred; publisher: Prentice-Hall
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£10.99
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Flamingo Quantum Evolution: Life in the Multiverse
<I>Quantum Evolution</I> tackles the hairiest heresy of evolutionary biology, the one most likely to get scientists figuratively burned at the stake: the notion that any force more selective than blind chance could drive mutation. Such directed evolution smacks too much of a retreat into creationism for most science-minded readers to be comfortable with, but there's no <I>a priori</I>reason to reject the idea. Molecular biologist Johnjoe McFadden risks the Inquisition by suggesting just such a possibility in <I>Quantum Evolution: The New Science of Life</I>. Directed at a general but somewhat sophisticated readership, it covers the basics of both standard evolutionary theory and quantum-level physics, then synthesizes them in an interesting theory of made-to-order mutation that explains enough to warrant attention and is, importantly, testable. <p> McFadden's writing is clear and sharp, and shows a high regard for the reader's intelligence and patience for complex ideas. This is no airplane book--except for those already well-versed in the latest in both evolutionary theory and subatomic physics. The rewards of reading are great, and the author bows just enough to established theory that he might meet the fate of his intellectual predecessors. The ideas underlying <I>Quantum Evolution</I> may be right or wrong, but they challenge received wisdom without plunging into dogmatism--and that's good science. --<I>Rob Lightner</I>
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BFS Publications The Age of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock
Pages: 120, Paperback, BFS Publications
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£9.98
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Simon & Schuster Minds, Machines, and the Multiuniverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer
Apart from a few promising prototypes, quantum computers don't really exist yet, but never mind that--the very thought of them is enough to give a geek goosebumps. Imagine it: a computer capable of processing data not just on your desktop but in a million parallel universes all at once. The concept sounds like science fiction, but the freaky laws of quantum physics make it a concrete possibility. And the implications--as science journalist Julian Brown makes plain in <I>Minds, Machines and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer</I>, a daunting yet consistently gripping look at quantum computation's high frontiers--are sweeping.<p>Computers powered by quantum weirdness, Brown tells us, could outperform existing machines to astronomical degrees, solving in minutes problems classical computers might take millennia to work through. But more to the point, the theoretical research that is making quantum computers plausible--led by gifted physicists like Rolf Landauer, David Deutsch and the late Richard Feynman--has already opened up intriguing new ways of thinking about the world and about computation's place in it.<p>But Brown shows equal commitment to explaining not only what makes quantum computers fascinating but what makes them work. This is not, in other words, a book for those who blanch at the sight of complex equations and circuit diagrams. Still, Brown's explanations, while dense with information, are unerringly lucid, and anyone who sticks with them to the end will come away with exactly what this book promises: a penetrating understanding of a mind-bending technology. --<I>Julian Dibbell, amazon.com</I>
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£11.51
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Ashgate God the Multiverse and Everything: Modern Cosmology and the Argument from Design
Pages: 204, Hardcover, Ashgate
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£47.50
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D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.) Multiverse
Pages: 288, Paperback, D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.)
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