AUTHOR'S BIO
David Deutsch
Visiting Professor of Physics and a founder member of the Centre for Quantum Computation at The Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, and author of The Fabric of Reality.
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Einstein the Realist
David Deutsch Series: Science and Society 2011-09-02With the discovery that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought, newspaper headlines are proclaiming that Albert Einstein was right, after all. But Einstein's most important legacy is his belief that a physical world, existing in reality, accounts for all of our experience.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 1 Read: 18059
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The Ultimate Computer
David Deutsch Series: Science and Society 2002-03-12The personal computer on my desktop is hundreds of times as fast, and has thousands of times as much memory, as the mainframe computer that served my entire university when I was a student. Such advances in the processing speed and storage capacity of computers are expected to continue until the laws of physics impose certain limits. After all, we cannot shrink atoms or increase the speed of light. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 26369
