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New theories of everything : the quest for ultimate explanation /
"In New Theories of Everything, John D. Barrow examines the ideas and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation, and what the necessary ingredients of the theory might be. Developing his earlier work Theories of Everything, he tells of the concepts and predictions emerging at the cutti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | [2nd ed., New ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Ultimate explanation. An eightfold way ; Myths ; Creation myths ; Algorithmic compressibility
- 2. Laws. The legacy of law ; The quest for unity ; Roger Boscovich ; Symmetries ; Infinities : to be or not to be? ; From Strings to 'M' ; A flight of rationalistic fancy ; Goodbye to all that
- 3. Initial conditions. At the edge of things ; Axioms ; Mathematical Jujitsu ; Initial conditions and time symmetry ; Time without time ; Cosmological time ; The problem of time ; Absolute space and time ; How far is far enough? ; The quantum mystery of time ; Quantum initial conditions ; The great divide
- 4. Forces and particles. The stuff of the Universe ; The copy-cat principle ; Elementarity ; The atom and the vortex ; A world beside itself
- 5. Constants of nature. The importance of being constant ; Fundamentalism ; What do constants tell us? ; Varying constants ; The cosmological constant
- 6. Broken symmetries. The never-ending story ; Broken symmetry ; Natural theology : a tale of two tales ; The flaws of nature ; Chaos ; Chance ; The unpredictability of sex ; Symmetry-breaking in the Universe
- 7. Organizing principles. Where the wild things are ; Big AL ; Time ; Being and becoming organized ; The arrow of time ; Far from equilibrium ; The sands of time ; The way of the world
- 8. Selection effects. Ubiquitous bias
- 9. Is 'pi' really in the sky? In the centre of immensities ; The number of the rose ; Philosophies of mathematics ; What is mathematics? ; Mathematics and physics : an eternal golden braid ; The intelligibility of the world ; Algorithmic compressibility rides again ; Continuity : a bridge too far? ; The secret of the Universe ; Is the Universe a computer? ; The unknowable.