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  • The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
  • By: Nicole Yunger Halpern
  • Narrated by: Raechel Wong
  • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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Summary

Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds 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 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, Harvard physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts with what she calls "quantum steampunk," after the fantastical genre that pairs futuristic technologies with Victorian sensibilities. While listeners 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. 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.

Publisher’s note: This audio contains references to figures present in the print and eBook formats of the book.

©2022 Nicole Yunger Halpern (P)2022 Tantor

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An informative big picture

I enjoyed reading Quantum Steampunk and appreciate its attempt to provide a big picture over the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics. I think this book is specially useful for graduate students who want to enter the realm of quantum information and quantum technologies.

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Why not?

Maybe I am missing something here, but why is there no PDF-file attached to this audiobook?
The author makes several references to printed figures throughout her audiobook, which in other audiobooks are attached as separate downloadable PDF files, but sadly on this one appear to be missing.
I really enjoyed this funky and unconventional approach to the subject of Quantum Steampunk and the narration by Raechel Wong is excellent.
However, many of the presented steam engine scenarios are scientific theories only and yet unproven. As enjoyable and entertaining this introduction to Information Theory, Quantum Physics, Quantum Computation, and Thermodynamics is, when a mathematical construct like the probability wave function is set congruous to a ‘real life’ physical entity, many of the described quantum effects remain for now, no more than science-fiction.
One certainly will have to come back for more, because only future research can tell us, if the authors phantastic quantum steampunk future really reflects a though magical but possible physical reality, or nothing but steam.

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