Conversations about Physics. Volume 1 [E-Book]
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five carefully edited in-depth conversations with Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert, Tony Leggett, David Politzer and Paul Steinhardt. A detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books is included. Each individual book is broken into cha...
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Personal Name(s): | Burton, Howard, author |
Edition: |
1st edition |
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Toronto :
Open Agenda Publishing,
2021
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (294 pages) |
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englisch |
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9781771701488 |
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Ideas Roadshow Collections ;
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- 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.