Conversations about Physics. Volume 1

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Conversations About Physics, Volume 1, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2021.
Colección:Ideas Roadshow Collections.
Temas:
Physics > Miscellanea.
Science > Methodology.
Cryptography.
Banjo > Acoustics.
Quasicrystals.
Physique > Miscellanées.
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Cryptographie.
Banjo > Acoustique.
Quasicristaux.
Physics.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Textual Note
  • Preface
  • Indiana Steinhardt
  • And the Quest for Quasicrystals
  • A conversation with Paul Steinhardt
  • Introduction
  • I. Introducing Quasicrystals
  • II. Building Models
  • III. Out of the Blue
  • IV. Competing Explanations
  • V. Looking to Nature
  • VI. New Year's Delight
  • VII. Confronting the Impossible
  • VIII. Tracking Khatyrkite
  • IX. Kamchatka
  • X. Passing It On
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Cryptoreality
  • A conversation with Artur Ekert
  • Introduction
  • I. Beginnings
  • II. Cryptographic Essentials
  • III. Public Key Cryptosystems
  • IV. Harnessing Interference
  • V. Quantum Sociology
  • VI. Quantum Metaphysics
  • VII. The Joy of Questioning
  • The Physics of Banjos
  • A conversation with David Politzer
  • Introduction
  • I. The Feynman Experience
  • II. Love at First Sound
  • III. The Holy Grail
  • IV. The Ocarina Effect
  • V. Hearing Pitch
  • VI. Relative Strengths
  • VII. Transient Growth
  • VIII. The Working Physicist
  • IX. The Journey Continues
  • The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered
  • A conversation with Tony Leggett
  • Introduction
  • I. Back to the Future
  • II. The Very Small
  • III. The Very Large
  • IV. A Glassy Digression
  • V. The Very Complex
  • VI. Understanding
  • VII. Different Regimes
  • VIII. Schrödinger's Cat
  • IX. The Slings and Arrows of Time
  • X. The Anthropic Principle
  • XI. The Future of Physics
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • The Power of Principles
  • Physics Revealed
  • A conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Introduction
  • I. Physics Time Management
  • II. The Problem with Popularization
  • III. In Feynman's Footsteps
  • IV. Describing Reality
  • V. A Timeless Community
  • VI. Against Relativism
  • VII. Strongly Constrained
  • VIII. In Search of a Formula
  • IX. A Principled Example
  • X. Supersymmetry
  • XI. Reacting Precipitously
  • XII. Tangled Pillars
  • XIII. The Pull of the Truth
  • XIV. Choosing a Better Description
  • XV. Beyond Space-Time

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