"According to/. it's ok to steal music and movies, but when you steal a comic book image it's grounds for the death penalty!:)"
What is it with these stupid comparisons?! Look both things are bad, but not entirely comparable; it's not like most people steal music to make money off of it. *That's* stealing.
Well, since chemistry is ultimately just QED (Quantum Electrodynamics), it'd probably be best to read up on Quantum Mechanics first, for completeness. And it's cool too.
Good PopSci QM books are: 1. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman 2. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin 3. Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin 4. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
More advanced QM books if you are willing to get into it: 1. Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti Shankar 2. The Feynman Lectures (really just concentrate on vol. 3) 3. Quantum Mechanics (2 vol.) by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Frank Laloe, and Bernard Dui
I'll leave it to my chemistry friends to fill in the rest from QED on;-)
This reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent wakes up one morning, and eats a moldy sandwich that just hapens to cure him of some virus he picked up in some swamp on an alien world. I mean, how do we know that our cat shit hasn't saved an endangered species of seahorse or something? I mean, look on the bright side;-)
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There aren't many, but a good read on Neural Networks and Quantum Mechanics is
The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man
A good popsci read on Quantum Computing is The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory-The New Physics of Information
Also, often ignored, are books on mathematics. An interesting read on Paul Erdos is The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
What is it with these stupid comparisons?! Look both things are bad, but not entirely comparable; it's not like most people steal music to make money off of it. *That's* stealing.
Well, since chemistry is ultimately just QED (Quantum Electrodynamics), it'd probably be best to read up on Quantum Mechanics first, for completeness. And it's cool too.
;-)
Good PopSci QM books are:
1. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
2. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
3. Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin
4. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
More advanced QM books if you are willing to get into it:
1. Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti Shankar
2. The Feynman Lectures (really just concentrate on vol. 3)
3. Quantum Mechanics (2 vol.) by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Frank Laloe, and Bernard Dui
I'll leave it to my chemistry friends to fill in the rest from QED on
This reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent wakes up one morning, and eats a moldy sandwich that just hapens to cure him of some virus he picked up in some swamp on an alien world. I mean, how do we know that our cat shit hasn't saved an endangered species of seahorse or something? I mean, look on the bright side ;-)
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For those of you, like me, who have only a cursory knowledge of Dark Matter check this overview of Dark Matter
Yes, lest we forget the biologically inspired algorithms in areas such as:
1) Evolutionary Computing: Genetic Algorithms, etc.
2) Function of the brain: Neural Networks (more specifically, backpropogation)
3) Machine Learning
...It's named after Erwin Hubble who discovered the fudemental structure of galaxies and how they are moving away from each...
Not to be picky, but it's Edwin Hubble.
Cheers.