Decoding the Universe
How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
by Charles Seife · first published 2005
100% recommend
The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our worldPreviously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines cryptology, physics, biology, an
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on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗…construct entangled systems of many q-bits, but this article is really quite poor in it's description. If you're really interested in this sort of stuff, I'd suggest reading Charles Seife's book entitled _Decoding the Universe_. It's about information theory and discusses quantum computing to a certain extent. I've also heard Seth Lloyd's book Programming the Universe is very good, but I have not read it.
on “Atom Split Into Two And Then Put Back Together Using Quantum Mechanics” ↗I wasn't a huge fan. It was more about his life and less about his ideas. If you want a little bit of both, I highly recommend Seife's Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes or Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.
on “Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf]” ↗Reminds me of one of my favorite books titled: Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes, by Charles Seife One item discussed in the book that we as humans may just be a transport method…
on “Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient retroviral infection” ↗