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The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be trueWhat is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected---instantly---in the other, be they in the same lab or light-years apart. So counterintuitive is this phenomenon and its implications that Einstein himself called it “spooky” and thought that it would lead to the downfall of quantum theory. Yet scientists have since discovered that quantum entanglement, the “God Effect,” was one of Einstein’s few---and perhaps one of his greatest---mistakes. What does it mean? The possibilities offered by a fuller understanding of the nature of entanglement read like something out of science fiction: communications devices that could span the stars, codes that cannot be broken, computers that dwarf today's machines in speed and power, teleportation, and more. In The God Effect, veteran science writer Brian Clegg has written an exceptionally readable and fascinating (and equation-free) account of entanglement, its history, and its application. Fans of Brian Greene and Amir Aczel and those interested in the marvelous possibilities coming down the quantum road will find much to marvel, illuminate, and delight.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 10 reviews)

Not much God by Ernest E. Edmundson (New Orleans LA USA)

3 Stars
September 13, 2009
This book does an excellent job of describing the history of the discoveries of quantum mechanics and the disputes over its implicationis. It does not consider any theological issues or the implications of quantum mechanics for theology. Having God in the title is rather misleading.

magnets, superconductors, boson, entanglement by Golden Lion (North Ogden, Ut United States)

5 Stars
November 03, 2008
1. Place a lightweight magnet above a superconductor, and the magnet will levitate, floating in space. The magnet produces an electric current in the superconductors, which generates its own magnetic field. The magnetic field repels against the original magnet and levitation occurs, the Messiner effect. However, a moving magnetic field is required to generate a current. Yet, as the material cools through the critical temperature at which it becomes a superconductor, effectively pushing the field out the material and taking the magnet with it. The magnet floats. Vedral suggest that this effect is a result of entangled electrons in the surface of the superconductors' giving the photons of the electromagnetic field effective mass, leaving them struggling through the material as if it were quantum molasses. 2. If all natural forces were transmitted by massless mediators like photons, they should extend indefinitely - yet in practice, most forces have limited range and most of the mediating particles have mass. 3. Higgs bonson. A bonson is one of two types, a fermion and bonson. Bonsons can share quantum states and fermions can not. The Higgs bonson is a hypothetical particle that has not yet been seen. Higgs bonson has been used to explain where mass comes from, and why different particles have such varying mass. 4. Each natural force has a corresponding field which communicates by a boson. The electromagnet field carrier is the photon. Higgs reasoned that there was a field called the Higgs field that was responsible for mass. According to theory a particles mass comes from its interaction with a Higgs equilvalent of a photon, the Higgs bonson. 5. If the Higgs boson, the God particle, is truly entanglement powered," then combined with entanglement limitless reach and remarkable consequences, it doesn't seem excessive to call entanglement the God effect. 6. Quantum theory works, it delivers. 7. Quantum machines could provide fast database searches. In 1996, Lov Grover came up with a method that would drastically speed up search through a database described as "A Fast Quantum Mechanical Algorithm For Searching Database." 8. Lene Vestergaad Hau developed a photon store, where light can be held indefinitely until required. When an photon entangles with an atom in the dark state, it shares it quantum information with the atom. It is possible to effectively transfer the qubit information from a photon to the condensate and back out again. 9. In 2002, Phil Hemmer produced similar effects to Haus using solid yttrium crystals. 10. Decoherence is the natural tendency of qubit to interact with other quantum objects around them and to lose their unique state. 11. In 2002, Eugene Polizik managed to entangle two clouds of cesium, each containing a billion atoms. A significant step forward because entanglement was, until this experiment, largely seen as something that applied to at most a handful of quantum objects at a time. 12. David Deutsch developed the many universe theory. The many worlds theory explains the quantum world by suggesting that each time any event happens, either the universe close off new copies of itself reflecting every possible outcome of the event, or there is a complex multiverse incorporated all the possible states of the vast probability wave that is the universe, and the reality we experience flips between states every time an event occurs. David Deutsch envisages constructing a self-aware computer. The machine would be a quantum machine. The computer has to observe its own workings and comment on how it feels when it observes a particular quantum state. The computer would know the one outcome from measurement but all the multiverse outcomes. "The computer tries to observe the effect of different internal states of his brain in different universes interacting with one another."

Basic Quantum Science by Jef Bryant (PDX)

4 Stars
July 19, 2007
If you have ever really wondered what quantum mechanics is really all about, and you have a deep distrust of Ramtha, then this is a great little book. You can get clear explanation of some of the weirdest parts of Q and some of the most exciting.

Book Review by Ward D. Wilcox (Wilkes-Barre , PA , USA)

5 Stars
April 06, 2007
Totally outstanding dissertation on a most abstract area of quantum physics . Erudite , yet learned ; and eminently understandable .

Best left unread by Invictus (Brisbane)

1 Stars
December 21, 2006
I am afraid I have to agree with Dr Mbogo. I simply mistrust the accuracy of the author's explanations. He cannot, as Dr Mbogo points out, even get right the basic notions of Cantor's treatment of infinity, repeatedly referring to numbers other than whole numbers as "fractions" - see pp. 172, 173. INVICTUS Brisbane

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