Author: Nicolas Gisin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319054732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise exposition does not avoid the deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.
L'impensable hasard
Author: Gisin
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738178693
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738178693
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 174
Book Description
Quantum Chance
Author: Nicolas Gisin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319054732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise exposition does not avoid the deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319054732
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Quantum physics, which offers an explanation of the world on the smallest scale, has fundamental implications that pose a serious challenge to ordinary logic. Particularly counterintuitive is the notion of entanglement, which has been explored for the past 30 years and posits an ubiquitous randomness capable of manifesting itself simultaneously in more than one place. This amazing 'non-locality' is more than just an abstract curiosity or paradox: it has entirely down-to-earth applications in cryptography, serving for example to protect financial information; it also has enabled the demonstration of 'quantum teleportation', whose infinite possibilities even science-fiction writers can scarcely imagine. This delightful and concise exposition does not avoid the deep logical difficulties of quantum physics, but gives the reader the insights needed to appreciate them. From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.
Chance, Culture and the Literary Text
Author: Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher: Michigan Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Michigan Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Narratives of fear and safety
Author: Kaisa Kaukiainen
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9523590154
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9523590154
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance.
Early Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l’ère moderne
Author: Angela Moorjani
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401208441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Table of Contents/Table des matières Early Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l¿ère moderne Introduction/Avant-propos I. In Dialogue with Dramatists and Writers/En dialogue avec des auteurs dramatiques et des écrivains Carla Taban: Le Molière de Beckett Angela Moorjani: Beckett¿s Racinian Fictions: ¿Racine and the Modern Novel¿ Revisited Danièle de Ruyter: Fascination de la tragédie Racinienne: résonances dans Oh les beaux jours Arka Chattopadhyay: ¿Worst In Need Of Worse¿: King Lear, Worstward Ho and the Trajectory of Worsening Julie Campbell: Allegories of Clarity and Obscurity: Bunyan¿s The Pilgrim¿s Progress and Beckett¿s Molloy Seán Kennedy: Edmund Spenser, Famine Memory and the Discontents of Humanism in Endgame Melanie Foehn: A Rhetoric of Discontinuity: On Stylistic Parallels between Pascal¿s Pensées and Samuel Beckett¿s L¿Innommable II. In Dialogue with Philosophers and Artists/En dialogue avec des philosophes et des artistes Yoshiyuki Inoue: Cartesian Mechanics in Beckett¿s Fin de Partie Layla M. Roesler: En compagnie d¿une métaphysique parodique: Beckett lecteur de Descartes redux Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx¿s Ethics: ¿¿my Geulincx could only be a literary fantasia¿ Naoya Mori: Beckett¿s Faint Cries: Leibniz¿s petites perceptions in First Love and Malone Dies Claire Lozier: Présence de la sculpture funéraire des débuts de l¿époque moderne dans l¿¿uvre narrative de Samuel Beckett: du motif artistique religieux à sa laïcisation scripturale Joanne Shaw: Light and Darkness in Elsheimer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Beckett Beckett Between/Beckett entre deux Introduction Dúnlaith Bird: Light, Landscape and Beckett James Williams: Beckett between the Words: Punctuation and the Body in the English Prose Alys Moody: The Non-Lieu of Hunger: Post-war Beckett and the Genealogies of Starvation Dirk Van Hulle: The Extended Mind and Multiple Drafts: Beckett¿s Models of the Mind and the Postcognitivist Paradigm Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx¿s Metaphysics: ¿Without knowing why exactly¿ John Wall: ¿L¿au-delà du dehors-dedans¿: Paradox, Space and Movement in Beckett Lea Sinoimeri: ¿Ill-Told Ill-Heard¿: Aurality and Reading in Comment c¿est/How It Is Karine Germoni and Pascale Sardin: Tensions of the In-Between: Rhythm, Tonelessness and Lyricism in Fin de partie/Endgame Iain Baily: Beckett, Bilingualism and the Bible Garin Dowd: The Proxemics of ¿Neither¿ Contributors/Auteurs
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401208441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Table of Contents/Table des matières Early Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l¿ère moderne Introduction/Avant-propos I. In Dialogue with Dramatists and Writers/En dialogue avec des auteurs dramatiques et des écrivains Carla Taban: Le Molière de Beckett Angela Moorjani: Beckett¿s Racinian Fictions: ¿Racine and the Modern Novel¿ Revisited Danièle de Ruyter: Fascination de la tragédie Racinienne: résonances dans Oh les beaux jours Arka Chattopadhyay: ¿Worst In Need Of Worse¿: King Lear, Worstward Ho and the Trajectory of Worsening Julie Campbell: Allegories of Clarity and Obscurity: Bunyan¿s The Pilgrim¿s Progress and Beckett¿s Molloy Seán Kennedy: Edmund Spenser, Famine Memory and the Discontents of Humanism in Endgame Melanie Foehn: A Rhetoric of Discontinuity: On Stylistic Parallels between Pascal¿s Pensées and Samuel Beckett¿s L¿Innommable II. In Dialogue with Philosophers and Artists/En dialogue avec des philosophes et des artistes Yoshiyuki Inoue: Cartesian Mechanics in Beckett¿s Fin de Partie Layla M. Roesler: En compagnie d¿une métaphysique parodique: Beckett lecteur de Descartes redux Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx¿s Ethics: ¿¿my Geulincx could only be a literary fantasia¿ Naoya Mori: Beckett¿s Faint Cries: Leibniz¿s petites perceptions in First Love and Malone Dies Claire Lozier: Présence de la sculpture funéraire des débuts de l¿époque moderne dans l¿¿uvre narrative de Samuel Beckett: du motif artistique religieux à sa laïcisation scripturale Joanne Shaw: Light and Darkness in Elsheimer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Beckett Beckett Between/Beckett entre deux Introduction Dúnlaith Bird: Light, Landscape and Beckett James Williams: Beckett between the Words: Punctuation and the Body in the English Prose Alys Moody: The Non-Lieu of Hunger: Post-war Beckett and the Genealogies of Starvation Dirk Van Hulle: The Extended Mind and Multiple Drafts: Beckett¿s Models of the Mind and the Postcognitivist Paradigm Everett C. Frost: Beckett and Geulincx¿s Metaphysics: ¿Without knowing why exactly¿ John Wall: ¿L¿au-delà du dehors-dedans¿: Paradox, Space and Movement in Beckett Lea Sinoimeri: ¿Ill-Told Ill-Heard¿: Aurality and Reading in Comment c¿est/How It Is Karine Germoni and Pascale Sardin: Tensions of the In-Between: Rhythm, Tonelessness and Lyricism in Fin de partie/Endgame Iain Baily: Beckett, Bilingualism and the Bible Garin Dowd: The Proxemics of ¿Neither¿ Contributors/Auteurs
Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics?
Author: Franck Laloë
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108758967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Quantum mechanics impacts on many areas of physics from pure theory to applications. However it is difficult to interpret, and philosophical contradictions and counter-intuitive results are apparent at a fundamental level. This book presents current understanding of the theory, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations. Fully revised from the first edition, this book contains state-of-the-art research including loophole-free experimental Bell test, and theorems on the reality of the wave function including the PBR theorem, and a new section on quantum simulation. More interpretations are now included, and these are described and compared, including discussion of their successes and difficulties. Other sections have been expanded, including quantum error correction codes and the reference section. It is ideal for researchers in physics and maths, and philosophers of science interested in quantum physics and its foundations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108758967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Quantum mechanics impacts on many areas of physics from pure theory to applications. However it is difficult to interpret, and philosophical contradictions and counter-intuitive results are apparent at a fundamental level. This book presents current understanding of the theory, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations. Fully revised from the first edition, this book contains state-of-the-art research including loophole-free experimental Bell test, and theorems on the reality of the wave function including the PBR theorem, and a new section on quantum simulation. More interpretations are now included, and these are described and compared, including discussion of their successes and difficulties. Other sections have been expanded, including quantum error correction codes and the reference section. It is ideal for researchers in physics and maths, and philosophers of science interested in quantum physics and its foundations.
Phonology in the 1980s
Author: Didier L. Goyvaerts
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027270856
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027270856
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology.
Michigan Romance Studies
Apprendre À Vivre
Author: Gil Trigo
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466906987
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Le livre que vous vous apprêtez à lire a été écrit en 1985 et, pour toutes sortes de bonnes ou mauvaises raisons, est demeuré au fond d'un tiroir jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Son caractère intemporel et universel est basé sur une considération générale de la spiritualité, de la science et de la réflexion personnelle. Aujourd'hui, comme il y a 30 ans, on peut remarquer que «plus ça change et plus c'est pareil» puisque les gens n'apprennent pas, ou si peu, de leurs expériences. Malgré toutes les révolutions culturelles ou technologiques, si nous regardons au plus profond de notre être, nous remarquerons que ce que nous recherchons vraiment c'est la paix intérieure, comme le disent les mystiques de tous temps. Ce petit livre vise justement à vous amener sur des sentiers qui vous permettront de revenir à l'essentiel c'est-à-dire de rechercher à apprendre à vivre à partir de l'intérieur et non de l'extérieur en gardant à l'esprit que ce que vous êtes en conscience s'extériorise dans votre vie au quotidien. Rappelez-vous que le hasard n'existe pas et que, malgré la croyance populaire, nous ne savons pas ce qui est bon pour nous ou ce dont nous avons réellement besoin.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466906987
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Le livre que vous vous apprêtez à lire a été écrit en 1985 et, pour toutes sortes de bonnes ou mauvaises raisons, est demeuré au fond d'un tiroir jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Son caractère intemporel et universel est basé sur une considération générale de la spiritualité, de la science et de la réflexion personnelle. Aujourd'hui, comme il y a 30 ans, on peut remarquer que «plus ça change et plus c'est pareil» puisque les gens n'apprennent pas, ou si peu, de leurs expériences. Malgré toutes les révolutions culturelles ou technologiques, si nous regardons au plus profond de notre être, nous remarquerons que ce que nous recherchons vraiment c'est la paix intérieure, comme le disent les mystiques de tous temps. Ce petit livre vise justement à vous amener sur des sentiers qui vous permettront de revenir à l'essentiel c'est-à-dire de rechercher à apprendre à vivre à partir de l'intérieur et non de l'extérieur en gardant à l'esprit que ce que vous êtes en conscience s'extériorise dans votre vie au quotidien. Rappelez-vous que le hasard n'existe pas et que, malgré la croyance populaire, nous ne savons pas ce qui est bon pour nous ou ce dont nous avons réellement besoin.