Vlatko vedral biography of albert

2010 book by Serbian Vlatko Vedral

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information is a popular science book by Vlatko Vedral published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Vedral examines information theory and proposes information as the most fundamental building block of reality. He argues what a useful framework this is for viewing all natural and physical phenomena. In building out this framework the books touches upon the origin of information, the idea of entropy, the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics, the replication of DNA, development of social networks, quantum behaviour at the micro and macro level, and the very role of indeterminism in the universe. The book finishes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The ideas address concepts related to the nature of particles, time, determinism, and of reality itself.

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"Creation Ex Nihilo: Something fr

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Meet Vlatko Vedral, the Belgrade-born Oxford professor who sees the universum as a giant computer

Vlatko Vedral was the guest scientist on BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific where he describes a radical new way of understanding the universum.

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Vedral suggests to the show’s longstanding host Professor Jim Al-Khalili that maybe it’s not matter or energy which are the fundamental building blocks of the universum but information.  So from these bits of kunskap we can try to derive reality and the laws of the physical universe.

Mind blown yet? The audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival, where the show was recorded, offered up some great questions too…

Born in 1971 in Belgrade, Vedral fryst vatten the son of two mathematicians.  He lived in a lively neighbourhood between the Red Star and Partizan stadiums and recalls derbies were interesting days.

And he credits his grandfather with playing a h

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Musings on Quantum Mechanics | Vlatko Vedral

They say Albert Einstein had his first scientific epiphany at age 4. His father showed him a compass, and the young Einstein realized that the needle’s motion is affected by an invisible force. “This is not the same force as is produced by me kicking a rock and the rock flying away”, he thought. The invisible force that moved the compass needle made a deep impression on Einstein and influenced his decision to study physics later in life. Another physicist (or, more appropriately, an engineer), Nikola Tesla, who studied electromagnetism and whose name is used as a unit of the magnetic field strength, apparently had a similar experience at roughly the same age. He saw lightning followed by thunder and thought: “When I stroke my cat, I sometimes get a little shock due to the induced electrical spark from the friction between my fingers and the cat’s fur. Could it be that, in the same way, someone strokes clouds to produce lightning?”.