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1、DeutschPage1of260file://C:DocumentsandSettingsrealiDesktoptempDavidDeutsch-TheFabricofR...29/02/2008DeutschPage2of260PENGUINBOOKSTHEFABRICOFREALITYBorninHaifa,Israel,DavidDeutschwaseducatedatCambridgeUniversityandOxfordUniversity.HeisamemberoftheQuantumComputationandCryptographyRe
2、searchGroupattheClarendonLaboratory,OxfordUniversity.Hispapersonquantumcomputationlaidthefoundationsforthatfield,andheisanauthorityonthetheoryofparalleluniverses.PraiseforTheFabricofReality"Fullofrefreshinglyoblique,provocativeinsights...Quantummechanics,Deutschinsists,mustbetakennotju
3、stasapredictivetool,butasanexplanationforhowtheworldreallyworks."—GeorgeJohnson,TheNewYorkTimes"DavidDeutschisadeeplyknowledgeableprofessionalphysicistwhohasnotruckwithmysticalfalseanalogies...[he]hasbecomethemosteloquentspokesmanoftheManyUniversesinterpretationofquantumbehavior,andfil
4、e://C:DocumentsandSettingsrealiDesktoptempDavidDeutsch-TheFabricofR...29/02/2008DeutschPage3of260[TheFabricofReality]makesthisthemecoherentwithsomewell-thought-outviewsofepistemology,ofbiologicalevolution,andofthetheoryofcomputation."—RichardDawkins"Inthelibraryofphysicsforlaypeop
5、le,Deutsch'sbookisunique.Correction:itismultiversal,existingininnumerableuniversesthatDeutscharguesexistalongsidethe‘real’universethatpeopleperceive.Explainingthat,andpersuadingthereaderofitsscientifictruth,makesthisworkunique...theconfidencewithwhichDeutschpresentshisviews,andtheabsen
6、ceofcondescensioninhisstyle,accessesnonscientiststohisseeminglyalienworld(s)."—ALABooklist"DavidDeutschisoneofBritain'smostoriginalthinkers.Inthismajorworkheconfrontsthedeepestquestionsofexistenceheadon,challengingtraditionalnotionsofrealitywithanewworldviewthatinterweavesphysics,biolo
7、gy,computing,andphilosophy.Ihaven'tbeensoinspiredsinceIreadDouglasHofstadter'sGödel,Escher,Bach."—PaulDavies,authorofAboutTime:Einstein'sUnfinishedRevolution"Deutschprovidesamodelofrealitythatisasprovocativeasitiscomplex....Anintellectuallystimulatingreadforthescience-literateandmoti
