Book description
Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin
presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques
that have enabled physicists to formulate and test new theories about
the nature of light. He describes these theories not in terms of
hard-to-imagine entities like spinning subnuclear particles, but in
terms of the fate of two small cats, separated at a tender age and
carried to opposite ends of the universe. In this way Gribbin introduces
the reader to such new developments as quantum cryptography, through
which unbreakable codes can be made, and goes on to possible future
developments such as the idea that the 'entanglement' of quantum
particles could be a way to build a STAR TREK style teleportation
machine. John Gribbin (1946 - )
John Gribbin is a British science writer, astrophysicist and visiting
fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex, where he graduated with
a BA in physics in 1966 and did his master of science (MSc) in 1967. He
earned his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge in 1971.
Author of the well-known In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum
Physics and Reality
(1984), Gribbin's work as a scientist is often reflected in his writing
which covers a wide range of topics, such as quantum physics, human
evolution, the origins of the universe, climate change and global
warming.
