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Moving through evolutionary time as whole units leads, he believes, to life's stability in the face of ever-present forces of entropy. At its core, because of this stability, life is an effective counter-force to the entropic pressures toward heat dissipation and disorder.
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Erwin Schrödinger has 83 books on Goodreads with 37846 ratings. Erwin Schrödinger’s most popular book is What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiogr...
Mar 20, 2013 · One of the strengths of the book is Gribbin's explanation of how Schrödinger's interpretation has come to be more accepted and how it relates to ideas like multiple universes and the strange fact of nonlocality in quantum physics.
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Jul 28, 1989 · Schrödinger led a very intense life, both in his research and in the personal realm. This book portrays his life against the backdrop of Europe at a time of change and unrest. His best known scientific work was the discovery of wave mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933.
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Feb 9, 2021 · Summary. The first quarter of the twentieth century saw two great scientific revolutions: firstly relativity, which deeply changed our view of space and time, and secondly quantum mechanics, which deeply changed the way we think about states of matter and energy. Quantum mechanics provided a deep understanding of a wide variety of phenomena ...
The first accessible, in-depth biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Takes you into the heart of the quantum revolution and explains the captivating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science. Written by bestselling author John Gribbin, one of today's greatest popular science writers ...
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Jun 16, 2021 · 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life?, a short book described by Roger Penrose in his preface to a reprint of this classic as “among the most influential scientific writings of the 20th century.”
