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Computing with Quantum Cats - From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schrodinger ...Show more
Computing with Quantum Cats - From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schrodinger ...Show more
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Erwin Schrodinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schroding ...Show more
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating and colourful biography of the father of quantum mechanics, by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat. Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his ...Show more
GALAXIES A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by John Gribbin
$15.41 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets form, and where on at least one of those planets intelligent life has emerged.Our own galaxy, the Milky Wa ...Show more
In Search of the Multiverse by John Gribbin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be one universe among many. "In Search of the Multiverse" takes us on an extraordinary journey, examining the most fundamental question ...Show more
Q IS FOR QUANTUM by John Gribbin
$0.00 AUD
Category: Science
A comprehensive encyclopedia of quantum physics.Here in one volume, the award-winning science writer and physicist John Gribbin has provided everything you need to know about the quantum world -the place where most of the greatest scientific advances of the last hundred years have been made.This excepti ...Show more
Science - A History 1543-2001 by John Gribbin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
This text tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they live in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric and even the mad. This diverse cast includes, among others: Andreas Vesalius, anatomist and secret g ...Show more
Stardust by John Gribbin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Life begins with the process of star formation. Except for hydrogen, every single atom of every single element in our bodies has been manufactured inside stars and then scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions known as supernovas, only then to be recycled as part of us. The hydrogen is ...Show more
Stardust : Supernovae and Life : The Cosmic Connection by Mary John; Gribbin Gribbin
$39.00 AUD
Category: Science
We are made of stardust--and so is all life as we know it. All the chemical elements on earth except hydrogen--including the ones in our bodies--have been processed inside stars, scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions, and recycled to become new stars, planets, and parts of us. In t ...Show more
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth by John Gribbin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
There are several hundred billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, yet out of all of these Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it. Why? In "The Reason Why" John Gribbin shows just what it is that makes our planet so special. For the first time, he makes the link between the whole series of c ...Show more
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