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Questioning the Foundations of Physics Which of Our Fundamental Assumptions Are Wrong? /

The essays in this book look at way in which the fundaments of physics might need to be changed in order to make progress towards a unified theory. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition "Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?", which...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Aguirre, Anthony (Editor ), Foster, Brendan (Editor ), Merali, Zeeya (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:The Frontiers Collection,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Introduction (A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali) -- The paradigm of kinematics and dynamics must yield to causal structure (R. Spekkens) -- Recognising Top-Down Causation (G. Ellis) -- On the Foundational Assumptions of Modern Physics (B. Dribus) -- The preferred system of reference reloaded (I. Perez) -- Right about time? (S. Gryb, F. Mercati) -- A critical look at the standard cosmological picture (D. Janzen) -- Not on but of (O. Dreyer) -- Patterns in the Fabric of Nature (S. Weinstein) Is quantum linear superposition an exact principle of nature? (A. Bassi, T. Singh, H. Ulbricht) -- Quantum-informational Principles for Physics (G. D'Ariano).- The Universe is not a Computer (K. Wharton) -- Against spacetime (G. Amelino-Camelia) -- A chicken-and-egg problem: Which came first, the quantum state or spacetime? (T. Asselmeyer-Maluga) -- Gravity can be neither classical nor quantized (S. Hossenfelder) -- Weaving commutators: beyond Fock space (M. Arzano) -- Reductionist Doubts (J. Barbour) -- Rethinking the scientific enterprise: in defense of reductionism (I. Durham) -- Is Life Fundamental? (S. Walker). 
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