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  50 Quantum Physics Questions in Plain Simple English Book 1: Simple and Easy Answers Without Math for Beginners , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min

  Are you fascinated by quantum physics and want to unlock its mysteries and complexities but are somehow intimidated by the formulas and mathematics?Are you wishing you could share the insights and discoveries of brilliant theoretical physicists and scientists?Are you looking for an audiobook that can reveal quantum physics in a simple, uncomplicated, and clear way that you can immediately understand?If so, this audiobook is for you. It's in an easy and fun-to-listen-to format of 50 of the most common questions about the ever-expanding quantum world of subatomic particles and the forces that govern them.You will quickly learn about:The origin of the universe, the cosmic microwave background, and the three laws of thermodynamics.Black holes, neutron stars, dark matter, and dark energy.Fermions, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, and how they form atoms.Quarks that affect the electrical charges of atoms, as well as alpha decay, beta decay, and their roles in radiation and particle transformations.Radioactive half-life, nuclear fission in atoms, and the nuclear fusion that powers the stars.Bosons and the four forces that control the universe: strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravity.The uncertainty principle and the wave/particle law of complementarity, supersymmetry, superposition, and the exclusion principle.Superstring theory, with its 11 dimensions of ultimately fundamental vibrating strings.The Standard Model and Grand Unified Theory, and Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.Entanglement of distant particles and its role in quantum computing.How electron microscopes and PET scans work.The meaning of quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics.If these and many other aspects of quantum physics are what you are hoping to learn without having to deal with complexities, this is the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lizzie Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231215/bk_acx0_231215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kevin Eldon Will See you Now: The Complete Series 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 110min

  Comedy’s best kept secret ingredient gets another series of his own hit sketch show. This is the complete second series, containing sketches, characters, sound effects, a bit of music, some messin’ about, you know...Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He’s been in virtually every major comedy show in the last 15 years, but not content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he finally decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio 4. After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now...Appearing in the series are Amelia Bullmore (I’m Alan Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), Paul Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The Thick Of It), David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) and Catherine Shepherd (Cardinal Burns, Harry & Paul). In the first episode, we meet Kim Jong Un’s haircut and David Livingstone’s trousers, plus we extol the wonders of drink and sneezing. Episode two, and we get to shape some hedges, eat some cheese,and play an exciting round of Ten Man’s Nancy. In the third episode, if you’ve ever been abducted by an alien, had an idea for a novelty teatowel or simply love escarpments, then this is the show for you. It’s also the show for you if you don’t have any of the afore-mentioned qualifications. And finally, in the fourth episode, carpentry, subatomic physics, Winston Churchill and how to deal with troublesome slugs all come under the microscope. Not really the best instrument for examining any of these things, one would’ve thought, but there you go. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Eldon, Amelia Bullmore, a full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001892/bk_rhuk_001892_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  To the Best of Our Knowledge: Information, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

  James Gleick's The Information is a sweeping history of information, going back to the invention of writing and the African tradition of talking drums. He tells Steve Paulson that the invention of various information technologies has changed the very nature of consciousness. Gleick describes some of the key breakthroughs in information technology, including the invention of the telegraph and the more recent understanding of information as mathematical. He also explains why information is not the same as knowledge.Next, Borges' The Library of Babel has inspired generations of writers. And now, many scientists regard his library of never-ending books as a metaphor for the new scientific view of reality, including theories about parallel universes. Here, we read several excerpts from the story.Then, Nicholas Carr believes the Internet is rewiring the human brain with its instant access to all sorts of information. Are we losing our ability to focus on one thing for any length of time? He makes the provocative argument that our reliance on the Internet is leading to shallow thinking.After that, information overload seems to be the quintessential 21st century problem. Actually, people have worried about this for centuries, going back to the ancient Romans. Ann Blair provides a short history of information-gathering, from note-taking to the invention of encyclopedias, and how many scholars have tried to battle information overload.And finally, what are the basic buildings blocks of the universe? Some physicists now say they're not subatomic particles or even the laws of physics, but information itself. Physicist Paul Davies explains, and says it's time to question old theories about the fundamental structure of the universe. He says we need to examine the far-reaching implications of quantum physics. [Broadcast Date: September 7, 2011] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110907/rt_tbon_110907_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Richard Feynman: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min

  Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, he was ranked as one of the 10 greatest physicists of all time. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and became known to a wide public in the 1980s as a member of the Rogers Commission, the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures, including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chester L. Proctor IV. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063101/bk_acx0_063101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 760min

  Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics. Bringing together firsthand experience of science at the cutting edge with unparalleled gifts of exposition and explanation, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. Drawing on recent groundbreaking experiments around the world, they show how photosynthesis relies on subatomic particles existing in many places at once while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another. Each chapter in Life on the Edge opens with an engaging example that illustrates one of life’s puzzles - How do migrating birds know where to go? How do we really smell the scent of a rose? How do our genes manage to copy themselves with such precision? - and then reveals how quantum mechanics delivers its answer. Guiding the reader through the maze of rapidly unfolding discovery, Al-Khalili and McFadden communicate vividly the excitement of this explosive new field of quantum biology, with its potentially revolutionary applications, and offer insights into the biggest puzzle of all: what is life? As they brilliantly demonstrate here, life lives on the quantum edge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Cross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002215/bk_rhuk_002215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min

  Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014", and leading astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries. Science tells us with some precision that the universe is 26.8 percent dark matter, 68.3 percent dark energy, and only 4.9 percent ordinary matter but must confess that it doesn't really know what dark matter is and knows even less about dark energy. Science is increasingly pointing toward an infinite universe but has no ability to explain what that really means. Concepts such as time, space, and even causality are increasingly being demonstrated as meaningless. All of science is based on information passing through our consciousness, but science hasn't the foggiest idea what consciousness is, and it can't explain the linkage between subatomic states and observation by conscious observers. Science describes life as a random occurrence in a dead universe but has no real understanding of how life began or why the universe appears to be exquisitely designed for the emergence of life. The biocentrism theory isn't a rejection of science. Quite the opposite. Biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness. By listening to what the science is telling us, it becomes increasingly clear that life and consciousness are fundamental to any true understanding of the universe. This forces a fundamental rethinking o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030173/bk_adbl_030173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics for Beginners: The Introduction Guide for Beginners Who Flunked Maths and Science in Plain Simple English , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min

  Are you intrigued by quantum physics but turned off by the complexities, the mathematics, and the formulas? Did your education in mathematics and physics leave you with more questions than answers? Are you fascinated by the universe and want to know about its basic components? If so, these may be the questions you want answers to:Do you want to learn about the giants of quantum theory, including Max Planck and Albert Einstein? Do you want to get in on the inspiring Bohr-Einstein debates on a “grand unifying theory” to bring together quantum mechanics and general relativity theory?Is it possible to look inside the atom, deep inside protons and neutrons to discover the quarks that give these particles their electromagnetic charge?Is wave-particle duality a real phenomenon? Can light be both a wave and a particle?How about the dark sector - the dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of the universe? Could ghostly neutrinos solve the mystery?Do you want to know about string and superstring theory, and whether strings can unify the four known forces in a unified field theory?What about Schrödinger’s famous cat experiment? Can a particle be in two places at once? Can a cat be both dead and alive?How about the concept of entanglement, with particles interacting at a distance? How do entanglement and superposition make quantum computing possible?Are we alone in our universe, or are there parallel universes “out there” that may have copies of ourselves? Theories on the idea of a multiverse are creative, and maybe close to reality. Or, maybe not.If these questions are your questions, you are in the right place. This audiobook was made to make quantum physics clear and understandable for those who find the study of math and science challenging. Come share in the amazing discoveries that are defining the subatomic world within the vast, expanding universe and everythin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric LaCord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219176/bk_acx0_219176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Fermi Paradox: The History and Legacy of the Famous Debate over the Existence of Aliens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min

  “The size and age of the universe incline us to believe that many technologically advanced civilizations must exist. However, this belief seems logically inconsistent with our lack of observational evidence to support it. Either (1) the initial assumption is incorrect and technologically advanced intelligent life is much rarer than we believe, or (2) our current observations are incomplete and we simply have not detected them yet, or (3) our search methodologies are flawed and we are not searching for the correct indicators, or (4) it is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.” (The Fermi Paradox)As technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realities, the sighting of UFOs increased, as did the interest in potential contact with aliens. While incidents like the one at Roswell led to conspiracies and a craze among those who insisted the government was hiding proof of extraterrestrials’ existence, governments across the world were actually secretly studying UFO sightings by the mid-20th century.Given all of that, it would hardly be groundbreaking for scientists in the 20th century to have a lunchtime discussion in which the search for extraterrestrial life arises, and the question of where it might reside is innocuous enough. However, a furor was created somewhat innocently when physicist Enrico Fermi voiced his “casual lunchtime remark” in the presence of colleagues in 1950. The august company included Edward Teller, a Hungarian physicist, Herbert York, am American nuclear physicist whose lineage included Mohawk heritage, and Emil Konopinski, a nuclear physicist of Polish origin. Fermi himself, an Italian-American born in Rome, was renowned for developing a statistical base for subatomic phenomena, work on nuclear alterations caused by neutrons, and for leading the first controlled chain reaction from nuclear fission. In pursuit of managing the atom, he created the first nuclear reactor. A gifted theoretician, he adva ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233991/bk_acx0_233991_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bluffer's Guide® to the Quantum Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min

  Be an instant expert on the quantum universe and Bluff Your Way in the subject with everyone you know. No science required, just a sense of humour. From 'gluons' to 'gravitons', and from 'certainty' to 'superstrings', here's all you need to know to sound all-knowing. Extracts from the book: Quantus The study of subatomic particles is called quantum mechanics. This is strange because the word 'quantum' is derived from the Latin noun 'quantus' meaning 'how much'. In this case, not a lot. And it can be seen within a nanosecond that it is entirely alien to this subject to talk of anything 'mechanical', 'mechanistic' or 'machine-like'. Quantomime Einstein, whose work with light and electrons had opened the curtains on the whole quantomime, wavered between calling quantum mechanics 'incomplete' and declaring its ideas to be 'the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac, concocted of incoherent elements of thought'. Quantity All matter can be broken down into atoms. Atoms are small. They are smaller than affordable apartments in Manhattan, they are smaller than portions at the Ritz, they are even smaller than the chance that a politician will be honest. The full stop at the end of this sentence will be a tiny blob of ink about a millimetre wide which will contain close to four billion atoms. Quantifiably Never commit yourself about the outer limits of the Universe or the quantum realm even to a 'probably'. Anything you utter with certainty, or declare to be 'probably true' could return to haunt you and, it can be said with confidence, probably will. If you know what's good for you, a 'possibly' is the farthest you will go. This is a Bluffer's Guide; Bluffer's Guides, Bluffer's Guide, Bluffer's, and Bluff Your Way, are Registered Trademarks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Klaff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bluf/000006/bk_bluf_000006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 824min

  Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question". With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry - harmony, balance, proportion - and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty", but this is the deep logic of the universe - and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number", to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of 20th century physics. Though the ancients weren't right about everything, their ardent belief in the music of the spheres has proved true down to the quantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just how intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost literally the same equations that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries. The universe itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want to embody beautiful and elegant forms. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this titl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Wilczek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002640/bk_peng_002640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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