description: thought experiment devised by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger about quantum superposition of macroscopic states, e.g. between a live cat and a dead cat
74 results
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
by
Paul Halpern
Published 13 Apr 2015
Beyond Weird
by
Philip Ball
Published 22 Mar 2018
The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
by
John Gribbin
Published 29 Nov 2009
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
by
John Gribbin
Published 1 Mar 2012
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 22 Oct 2012
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
by
Lee Smolin
Published 31 Mar 2019
Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms
by
Mark Spitznagel
Published 9 Aug 2021
The Simulation Hypothesis
by
Rizwan Virk
Published 31 Mar 2019
Clojure Programming
by
Chas Emerick
,
Brian Carper
and
Christophe Grand
Published 15 Aug 2011
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
by
William Poundstone
Published 3 Jun 2019
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
by
Michio Kaku
Published 5 Apr 2021
The Pragmatic Programmer
by
Andrew Hunt
and
Dave Thomas
Published 19 Oct 1999
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves
by
Dan Ariely
Published 27 Jun 2012
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/or Ruin Everything
by
Kelly Weinersmith
and
Zach Weinersmith
Published 16 Oct 2017
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
by
Simon Singh
Published 29 Oct 2013
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
by
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Published 6 Oct 2021
Time Travel: A History
by
James Gleick
Published 26 Sep 2016
Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising
by
Jim Jansen
Published 25 Jul 2011
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by
Gabriel Weinberg
and
Lauren McCann
Published 17 Jun 2019
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by
Sabine Hossenfelder
Published 11 Jun 2018
From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by
Sean M. Carroll
Published 15 Jan 2010
Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
by
Ray Jayawardhana
Published 10 Dec 2013
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by
Ozan Varol
Published 13 Apr 2020
Quarantine
by
Greg Egan
Published 13 Dec 1994
Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
by
Marianne Bellotti
Published 17 Mar 2021
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
by
John Brockman
Published 18 Jan 2011
This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
by
John Brockman
Published 14 Feb 2012
The Irrational Bundle
by
Dan Ariely
Published 3 Apr 2013
The God Delusion
by
Richard Dawkins
Published 12 Sep 2006
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
by
Johnjoe McFadden
and
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 14 Oct 2014
Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
by
John Kay
Published 2 Sep 2015
The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by
Keith Barnham
Published 7 May 2015
Red Moon
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 22 Oct 2018
Collaborative Society
by
Dariusz Jemielniak
and
Aleksandra Przegalinska
Published 18 Feb 2020
Science...For Her!
by
Megan Amram
Published 4 Nov 2014
Lint
by
Steve Aylett
Published 2 May 2005
The Manager’s Path
by
Camille Fournier
Published 7 Mar 2017
Kiln People
by
David Brin
Published 15 Jan 2002
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by
Peter Lunenfeld
Published 31 Mar 2011
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by
Carl Zimmer
Published 9 Mar 2021
The Midnight Library
by
Matt Haig
Published 12 Aug 2020
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
by
Craig Lambert
Published 30 Apr 2015
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by
Karen Joy Fowler
Published 29 May 2013
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by
Kenneth Cukier
,
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
and
Francis de Véricourt
Published 10 May 2021
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by
Paul Davies
Published 31 Jan 2019
Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
by
Brian Clegg
Published 8 Dec 2015
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by
Ben Mezrich
Published 20 May 2019
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by
Iain McGilchrist
Published 8 Oct 2012
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
by
Daniel C. Dennett
Published 15 Jan 1995
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
by
Gail Honeyman
Published 8 May 2017
Halting State
by
Charles Stross
Published 9 Jul 2011
The Quantum Magician
by
Derek Künsken
Published 1 Oct 2018
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by
Richard A. Clarke
and
Robert K. Knake
Published 15 Jul 2019
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by
Secret Barrister
Published 1 Jul 2018
The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
by
Ron Jeffries
Published 14 Aug 2015
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by
Benjamin Breen
Published 16 Jan 2024
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by
Jerry Kaplan
Published 3 Aug 2015
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by
Simon Singh
Published 1 Jan 1999
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by
Jim Holt
Published 14 May 2018
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by
Ray Kurzweil
Published 31 Dec 1998
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by
Mehrsa Baradaran
Published 7 May 2024
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by
Didier Sornette
Published 18 Nov 2002
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
by
Paul J. Nahin
Published 27 Oct 2012
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by
James Gleick
Published 1 Jan 1992
The World According to Physics
by
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 10 Mar 2020
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by
Steve Keen
Published 21 Sep 2011
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by
James Suzman
Published 2 Sep 2020
The Narcissist Next Door
by
Jeffrey Kluger
Published 25 Aug 2014
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Published 11 Mar 2015
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by
Peter Morville
Published 14 May 2014
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
by
P. W. Singer
Published 1 Jan 2010
Engineering Infinity
by
Jonathan Strahan
Published 28 Dec 2010
Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
by
Emanuel Derman
Published 13 Oct 2011
Open: The Story of Human Progress
by
Johan Norberg
Published 14 Sep 2020