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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Wave function collapse doesn't need a conscious observer. It needs energy - real, thermodynamic, measurable energy, dissipated into a real environment. Built to Break tells two stories at once. The first is a physics postulate: an alternative to Copenhagen, GRW, CSL, and Diósi-Penrose, grounded in nothing more exotic than energy exchange between a quantum system and its environment, and a Heisenberg-type action threshold. No consciousness. No postulated universal noise field. Just dissipation, measured in joules, crossing a critical bound. The second story is what actually happened while building it - including a single arithmetic error, missed for longer than it should have been, that threw a predicted collapse time off by twenty-six orders of magnitude before anyone caught it. Then a second, subtler error: a formula that produced stable, plausible-looking numbers while being dimensionally impossible underneath. This book shows both, in full, without cleaning up the record afterward. Inside: - A complete derivation of the energy-dissipation threshold model, verified line by line and audited in SI units- The mistakes, shown exactly as they happened - and how they were caught- A rigorous comparison against CSL, GRW, and Diósi-Penrose- A concrete, falsifiable experimental protocol for an optically levitated nanosphere, with real numbers a laboratory could test today>Built to Break is not a book that claims to have solved the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. It is a record of building one honest, testable candidate solution - and being precise, in print, about exactly where it might still be wrong. Written for readers with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and open-system dynamics who want to see the mathematics, not just the conclusions. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Cain had a stone. Today we have algorithms capable of deciding who lives and who dies, weapons that don't require looking at anyone's face, and the ability to edit life itself at the molecular level. The human will has not changed since the first altar. What changed, irreversibly, is the reach of that will.The Dilemma of Humanity traces the gap that widens with every generation between the power we're capable of building and the wisdom we have to direct it. It moves through real, verifiable cases: the lead we breathed for decades before knowing it was poison, the opioid crisis that began with a medication prescribed by trusted doctors, the internal Facebook documents that revealed the human cost of the attention economy, and the autonomous drones being tested right now, in 2026, with no human pilot in the decision loop.But it also shows the gap is not a sealed fate: Charlemagne, Ashoka, and Cyrus the Great each had the power to keep conquering indefinitely, and redirected it instead. A group of scientists, in 1975, had the technology ready to advance without restraint, and chose to stop and ask whether they should.This is not a book about technology, nor a work of futurology. It is a contemplative letter about power, the wisdom we still haven't learned to scale at the same pace, and the question every generation avoids: should we, even if we can.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - En un jardín con apenas cuatro personas -un padre, una madre, dos hijos-, sin ejércitos, sin fronteras, sin escasez que lo justificara, ocurrió el primer asesinato de la historia humana. Caín no mató a un extraño: mató al único otro ser humano de su generación, por una herida invisible frente a un amor que se suponía infinito.El Espejo de Caín persigue esa herida original a través de toda la historia humana y a través de tres lenguajes distintos que, sorprendentemente, dicen lo mismo: la neurociencia que encuentra en la amígdala el mismo instinto de autopreservación que activó la mano de Caín; la psicología social que demuestra, con niños divididos en grupos arbitrarios, lo poco que hace falta para que nazca un 'nosotros' contra un 'ellos'; y la tradición espiritual que, mucho antes que la ciencia, ya había nombrado esa misma tensión como las dos inclinaciones que conviven en cada persona.Desde ahí, el libro recorre los primeros templos que legalizaron la muerte, las leyes internacionales escritas por quienes ganaron la última guerra, la ciencia que miró hacia el átomo y encontró el mismo misterio que ardía junto al primer fuego, y las guerras modernas que solo cambiaron el altar por la bandera.No es un libro de historia ni un tratado teológico. Es una carta larga y contemplativa -no un veredicto- escrita para que cada lector se reconozca: en la envidia que sentimos frente a quien parece más querido, en la indiferencia que nos permite desayunar mientras el mundo arde en otro lugar, y en la pregunta que Dios mismo le hizo a Caín y que la humanidad entera sigue sin responder: ¿somos, acaso, guardianes de nuestro hermano Termina no con una conclusión, sino con una tarea: tres gestos simples y repetibles que cualquier lector -creyente o científico, ciudadano o gobernante- puede empezar a practicar hoy mismo. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Y si las leyes de la termodinamica, la evolucion y la mecanica cuantica pudieran leerse con el vocabulario de la ingenieria de sistemas - sin perder rigor cientifico en el intento?EL CODIGO DEL COSMOS invita al lector a recorrer diez capitulos que van desde la entropia y la homeostasis celular hasta la conciencia humana, pasando por la indeterminacion cuantica, la expansion del universo y las grandes extinciones que han marcado la historia de la vida en la Tierra.Este libro no pretende sustituir a la ciencia ni disfrazar la fe de fisica. Por el contrario, distingue en todo momento entre lo que la evidencia cientifica establece -con nombres como Boltzmann, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Wiener y Einstein- y lo que el autor propone como una lectura filosofica y espiritual de esa evidencia: una conviccion personal, honesta sobre su propia naturaleza, que invita a reflexionar sin exigir.A traves de la metafora del cosmos como un gran sistema que procesa informacion, se disipa entropia y se reinventa a traves de ciclos de renovacion, esta obra tiende un puente poco comun entre el pensamiento cientifico riguroso y la busqueda de sentido trascendente - dejando siempre en manos del lector la decision de que parte de ese puente cruzar.Una lectura para quienes disfrutan pensar en grande, sin renunciar ni a la razon ni a la fe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Nadie se despierta un dia sin amor. El amor cambia de dueno en silencio, mucho antes de que nadie tenga las palabras para nombrarlo - en el trabajo que consumio la atencion, en la pequena oferta de conexion que dejo de recibir respuesta, en el resentimiento que se acumula, semana tras semana, como interes compuesto.Con la misma vocacion de investigacion real que ya define esta coleccion, Cuando el amor cambia de dueno recorre lo que la ciencia sabe sobre por que las parejas dejan de verse: el trabajo de John Gottman sobre las senales que predicen un final antes que las propias palabras;el concepto de "perdida ambigua" para entender por que duele mas terminar algo vivo que llorar algo muerto;la investigacion sobre identidad que explica por que, despues de una separacion, no solo se pierde al otro - tambien se pierde, por un tiempo, una parte de quien se era.No es un manual para salvar una relacion a toda costa, ni un libro que reparta culpas. Es una carta contemplativa, escrita para quienes estan, ahora mismo, en medio de esto: para que entiendan que el amor haya cambiado de dueno no significa que haya sido falso mientras les pertenecio. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a garden with barely four people - a father, a mother, two sons - with no armies, no borders, no scarcity to justify it, the first murder in human history took place. Cain did not kill a stranger: he killed the only other human being of his generation, over an invisible wound before a love that was supposed to be infinite.The Mirror of Cain traces that original wound across all of human history and through three different languages that, surprisingly, say the same thing: neuroscience, which finds in the amygdala the same instinct for self-preservation that moved Cain's hand; social psychology, which shows, through children divided into arbitrary groups, how little it takes for an "us" to rise against a "them"; and spiritual tradition, which long before science had already named that same tension as the two inclinations that coexist in every person.From there, the book moves through the first temples that legalized death, the international laws written by whoever won the last war, the science that looked inside the atom and found the same mystery that once burned beside the first fire, and the modern wars that only traded the altar for the flag.This is not a history book, nor a theological treatise. It is a long, contemplative letter - not a verdict - written so that every reader might recognize themselves: in the envy we feel toward whoever seems more loved, in the indifference that lets us eat breakfast while the world burns elsewhere, and in the question God himself asked Cain, which all of humanity still hasn't answered: are we, in fact, our brother's keeper?It ends not with a conclusion, but with a task: three simple, repeatable gestures that any reader - believer or scientist, citizen or ruler - can begin practicing today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Wave function collapse doesn't need a conscious observer. It needs energy - real, thermodynamic, measurable energy, dissipated into a real environment. Built to Break tells two stories at once. The first is a physics postulate: an alternative to Copenhagen, GRW, CSL, and Diosi-Penrose, grounded in nothing more exotic than energy exchange between a quantum system and its environment, and a Heisenberg-type action threshold. No consciousness. No postulated universal noise field. Just dissipation, measured in joules, crossing a critical bound. The second story is what actually happened while building it - including a single arithmetic error, missed for longer than it should have been, that threw a predicted collapse time off by twenty-six orders of magnitude before anyone caught it. Then a second, subtler error: a formula that produced stable, plausible-looking numbers while being dimensionally impossible underneath. This book shows both, in full, without cleaning up the record afterward. Inside: - A complete derivation of the energy-dissipation threshold model, verified line by line and audited in SI units- The mistakes, shown exactly as they happened - and how they were caught- A rigorous comparison against CSL, GRW, and Diosi-Penrose- A concrete, falsifiable experimental protocol for an optically levitated nanosphere, with real numbers a laboratory could test today- An honest final chapter on what the postulate still cannot explain Built to Break is not a book that claims to have solved the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. It is a record of building one honest, testable candidate solution - and being precise, in print, about exactly where it might still be wrong. Written for readers with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and open-system dynamics who want to see the mathematics, not just the conclusions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Cain had a stone. Today we have algorithms capable of deciding who lives and who dies, weapons that don't require looking at anyone's face, and the ability to edit life itself at the molecular level. The human will has not changed since the first altar. What changed, irreversibly, is the reach of that will.The Dilemma of Humanity traces the gap that widens with every generation between the power we're capable of building and the wisdom we have to direct it. It moves through real, verifiable cases: the lead we breathed for decades before knowing it was poison, the opioid crisis that began with a medication prescribed by trusted doctors, the internal Facebook documents that revealed the human cost of the attention economy, and the autonomous drones being tested right now, in 2026, with no human pilot in the decision loop.But it also shows the gap is not a sealed fate: Charlemagne, Ashoka, and Cyrus the Great each had the power to keep conquering indefinitely, and redirected it instead. A group of scientists, in 1975, had the technology ready to advance without restraint, and chose to stop and ask whether they should.This is not a book about technology, nor a work of futurology. It is a contemplative letter about power, the wisdom we still haven't learned to scale at the same pace, and the question every generation avoids: should we, even if we can? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Y si las leyes de la termodinamica, la evolucion y la mecanica cuantica pudieran leerse con el vocabulario de la ingenieria de sistemas - sin perder rigor cientifico en el intento?EL CODIGO DEL COSMOS invita al lector a recorrer diez capitulos que van desde la entropia y la homeostasis celular hasta la conciencia humana, pasando por la indeterminacion cuantica, la expansion del universo y las grandes extinciones que han marcado la historia de la vida en la Tierra.Este libro no pretende sustituir a la ciencia ni disfrazar la fe de fisica. Por el contrario, distingue en todo momento entre lo que la evidencia cientifica establece -con nombres como Boltzmann, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Wiener y Einstein- y lo que el autor propone como una lectura filosofica y espiritual de esa evidencia: una conviccion personal, honesta sobre su propia naturaleza, que invita a reflexionar sin exigir.A traves de la metafora del cosmos como un gran sistema que procesa informacion, se disipa entropia y se reinventa a traves de ciclos de renovacion, esta obra tiende un puente poco comun entre el pensamiento cientifico riguroso y la busqueda de sentido trascendente - dejando siempre en manos del lector la decision de que parte de ese puente cruzar.Una lectura para quienes disfrutan pensar en grande, sin renunciar ni a la razon ni a la fe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Nadie se despierta un dia sin amor. El amor cambia de dueno en silencio, mucho antes de que nadie tenga las palabras para nombrarlo - en el trabajo que consumio la atencion, en la pequena oferta de conexion que dejo de recibir respuesta, en el resentimiento que se acumula, semana tras semana, como interes compuesto.Con la misma vocacion de investigacion real que ya define esta coleccion, Cuando el amor cambia de dueno recorre lo que la ciencia sabe sobre por que las parejas dejan de verse: el trabajo de John Gottman sobre las senales que predicen un final antes que las propias palabras;el concepto de "perdida ambigua" para entender por que duele mas terminar algo vivo que llorar algo muerto;la investigacion sobre identidad que explica por que, despues de una separacion, no solo se pierde al otro - tambien se pierde, por un tiempo, una parte de quien se era.No es un manual para salvar una relacion a toda costa, ni un libro que reparta culpas. Es una carta contemplativa, escrita para quienes estan, ahora mismo, en medio de esto: para que entiendan que el amor haya cambiado de dueno no significa que haya sido falso mientras les pertenecio. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…