工业革命与量子技术革命相遇！一本蒸汽朋克冒险指南，介绍令人兴奋的量子物理学如何改变我们对信息和能量的理解。
维多利亚时代的蒸汽机和粒子物理学似乎是两个不同的世界（以及几个世纪），但量子热力学这门科学的一个新分支，通过当今轰鸣的量子信息革命的视角，重新审视了工业革命的科学基础。经典热力学被理解为研究引擎、能量和效率，需要重新想象，以利用量子力学这一基本框架，通过观察微小物质，直至单个粒子的动量来探索现实的本质。
在她激动人心的新书中，勇敢的哈佛大学物理学家妮可·云格·哈尔彭博士用她所谓的“量子蒸汽朋克”（quantum steampunk）向外行介绍了这些概念，这是一种将未来主义技术与维多利亚时代的感性相结合的奇幻体裁。当读者们关注一个衣衫褴褛的蒸汽朋克船员在火车、飞船和汽车上的冒险经历时，他们探索了诸如“量子物理能彻底改变发动机吗？”以及“量子信息能揭示关于时间轨迹的哪些更深层次的秘密？”
Yunger Halpern还描述了她自己在量子宇宙中的冒险经历，并提供了一个内部人士对痴迷于其技术前景的科学家工作的看法。从基础物理到尖端实验应用，量子蒸汽朋克探索该领域的美学，分享其奇思妙想，并展望量子未来的潜力。其结果是对科学、科幻和幻想的粉丝们来说是一场爆炸。
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow
The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy.
Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today’s roaring quantum information revolution. Classical thermodynamics, understood as the study of engines, energy, and efficiency, needs reimagining to take advantage of quantum mechanics, the basic framework that explores the nature of reality by peering at minute matters, down to the momentum of a single particle.
In her exciting new book, intrepid Harvard-trained physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts to the uninitiated with what she calls “quantum steampunk,” after the fantastical genre that pairs futuristic technologies with Victorian sensibilities. While readers follow the adventures of a rag-tag steampunk crew on trains, dirigibles, and automobiles, they explore questions such as, “Can quantum physics revolutionize engines?” and “What deeper secrets can quantum information reveal about the trajectory of time?”
Yunger Halpern also describes her own adventures in the quantum universe and provides an insider’s look at the work of the scientists obsessed with its technological promise. Moving from fundamental physics to cutting-edge experimental applications, Quantum Steampunk explores the field’s aesthetic, shares its whimsy, and gazes into the potential of a quantum future. The result is a blast for fans of science, science fiction, and fantasy.
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