Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes is the third non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife.

In this book Seife concentrates on the information theory, discussing various issues, such as decoherence and probability, relativity and quantum mechanics, works of Turing and Schrödinger, entropy and superposition, etc.

The cosmos, as Seife depicts it, is a great big information swap meet.

Of course, subatomic particles do a lot of things that are much more baffling than this, like existing in two different places at the same time until someone or something tries to locate them.

“Decoding the Universe” offers a history of the development of information theory, too, beginning with the cryptographers of World War II.—Salon[4] Official website