Name: Decoding the Universe
ISBN: 9780670034413

Decoding the Universe

The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our worldPreviously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines cryptology, physics, biology, and mathematics to cast light on the new understanding of the laws that govern life and the universe.

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benmowaSep 2018

Reminds me of one of my favorite books titled:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes, by Charles Seife

One item discussed in the book that we as humans may just be a transport method for the data within DNA to survive time. Because without some replication it would get trapped and cease to exist.

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cbHXBY1DJan 2018

I wasn't a huge fan. It was more about his life and less about his ideas.

If you want a little bit of both, I highly recommend Seife's Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes or Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.

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bengali3Dec 2014

As a dev ultimately wanting to do bigger things:

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...

As a human with a curiosity:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003441X

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anusinhaJun 2012

This is a really misleading article. What they're referring to is placing atoms (and molecules) into states of superposition where the state can be represented as 1/sqrt(2)|left> + 1/sqrt(2)|right>. This is an important first step towards quantum computers--being able to construct entangled systems of many q-bits, but this article is really quite poor in it's description. If you're really interested in this sort of stuff, I'd suggest reading Charles Seife's book entitled _Decoding the Universe_. It's about information theory and discusses quantum computing to a certain extent. I've also heard Seth Lloyd's book Programming the Universe is very good, but I have not read it.

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