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Program Type: Audiobook; Unabridged
Narrator:
Henry Leyva
Publisher:
Random House Audible, 2002
Length: 6 hours and 7 min.
Audio Format:
"Mathematician and science writer Amir D. Aczel has
amused and edified readers with his clear explications
of the profundities of numbers, especially those that
led to enduring questions in mysticism and philosophy."
(The New York Times)
Will
"beam me up, Scotty" become reality? Quantum mechanics
suggests it may...and soon.
Since cyberspace - a word coined by a science fiction
writer - became reality, the lines between "science" and
"science fiction" have become increasingly blurred. Now,
the young field of quantum mechanics holds out the
promise that some of humanity's wildest dreams may be
realized. Serious scientists, working off of theories
first developed by Einstein and his colleagues 70 years
ago, have been investigating the phenomenon known as
"entanglement," one of the strangest aspects of the
strange universe of quantum mechanics.
According to Einstein, quantum mechanics required
entanglement - the idea that subatomic particles could
become inextricably linked, and that a change to one
such particle would instantly be reflected in its
counterpart, even if a universe separated them. Einstein
felt that if the quantum theory could produce such
incredibly bizarre effects, then it had to be invalid.
But new experiments both in the United States and Europe
show not only that it does happen, but that it may lead
to unbreakable codes, and even teleportation...
Entanglement is also available in print from
Four Walls Eight Windows.
Amir D. Aczel earned both his B.A. in
mathematics and master of sciences degree from the
University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Oregon. He is a professor at
Bentley College in Waltham, MA. Among other books,
he is the author of The Mystery of the Aleph:
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for
Infinity; God's Equation; Einstein, Relativity and
the Expanding Universe; and Fermat's Last
Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient
Mathematical Problem. His work has been
translated into French, German, Japanese, Dutch,
Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Italian,
Portuguese, Swedish and Finnish. |
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Henry Leyva has appeared on stage in numerous
regional and off-Broadway productions. His film and
television credits include One Life to Live
and The Interrogation. He has read several
other audiobooks for Random House Audible including
The Next 50 Years, The Riddle of the Compass and
The Mystery of the Aleph.
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Executive Producer: Jacob Bronstein
Producer: John Wager
Jacket design by Archie Ferguson
©2002 Amir D. Aczel
(P)2002 Random House, Inc. |
