Teleportation
eBook - ePub

Teleportation

The Impossible Leap

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Teleportation

The Impossible Leap

About this book

An authoritative, entertaining examination of the ultimate thrill ride
Until recently the stuff of sci-fi fiction and Star Trek reruns, teleportation has become a reality-for subatomic particles at least. In this eye-opening book, science author David Darling follows the remarkable evolution of teleportation, visiting the key labs that have cradled this cutting-edge science and relating the all-too-human stories behind its birth. He ties in the fast emerging fields of cryptography and quantum computing, tackles some thorny philosophical questions (for instance, can a soul be teleported?), and asks when and how humans may be able to "beam up."

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Information

Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780471470953
eBook ISBN
9780470248720
Edition
1
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Prologue
  7. Introduction: A Brief History of Beaming Up
  8. 1 Light Readings
  9. 2 Ghosts in the Material World
  10. 3 The Mysterious Link
  11. 4 Dataverse
  12. 5 Secret Communications
  13. 6 A Miracle in Montreal
  14. 7 Small Steps and Quantum Leaps
  15. 8 A Computer without Bounds
  16. 9 Atoms, Molecules, Microbes . . .
  17. 10 Far-fetched and Far-reaching
  18. Epilogue
  19. Chronology
  20. References
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index