Questioning the Foundations of Physics [E-Book] : Which of Our Fundamental Assumptions Are Wrong? / edited by Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster, Zeeya Merali
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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Personal Name(s): | Aguirre, Anthony, editor |
Foster, Brendan, editor / Merali, Zeeya, editor | |
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1st ed. 2015. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2015
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Physical Description: |
VIII, 274 pages 24 illustrations (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783319130453 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-13045-3 |
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- 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).