The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life
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.
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.
*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.
*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*
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