Life on the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili
Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics.
Hugely ambitious.. the skill of the writing provides the uplift to keep us aloft as we fly through the strange and spectacular terra incognita of genuinely new science. -- Tom Whipple * The Times *
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili and molecular biologist Johnjoe McFadden explore this extraordinary realm with cogency and wit. * Nature Magazine *
A really original science book about a new field of research ... Groundbreaking. -- Clive Cookson * Financial Times *
This thrilling book is an overview of a field that barely exists ... Al-Khalili has a genius for illustrating complex ideas via imaginative sidetracks. * The Sunday Telegraph *
'Life on the Edge’ gives the clearest account I’ve ever read of the possible ways in which the very small events of the quantum world can affect the world of middle-sized living creatures like us. With great vividness and clarity it shows how our world is tinged, even saturated, with the weirdness of the quantum. * Philip Pullman *
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili and molecular biologist Johnjoe McFadden explore this extraordinary realm with cogency and wit. * Nature Magazine *
A really original science book about a new field of research ... Groundbreaking. -- Clive Cookson * Financial Times *
This thrilling book is an overview of a field that barely exists ... Al-Khalili has a genius for illustrating complex ideas via imaginative sidetracks. * The Sunday Telegraph *
'Life on the Edge’ gives the clearest account I’ve ever read of the possible ways in which the very small events of the quantum world can affect the world of middle-sized living creatures like us. With great vividness and clarity it shows how our world is tinged, even saturated, with the weirdness of the quantum. * Philip Pullman *
Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Surrey, where he teaches and carries out research in quantum mechanics.
Professor Johnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey and is the editor of leading text books on both molecular biology and systems biology of tuberculosis. For over a decade, he has specialised in examining tuberculosis and meningitis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552778077 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552778079 |
| Title | Life on the Edge |
| Author | Jim Al-Khalili |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 |
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