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Traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.
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Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity
2017, Riverhead Books
in English
- First American edition.
0735213925 9780735213920
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Table of Contents
Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things
The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light
Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos
Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand?
Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps
Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks
Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi spinfoam ; What is the world made of?
Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology
Empirical confirmations? ; Signals from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity
Quantum black holes
The end of infinity
Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information
Mystery.
Edition Notes
Translation from the Italian of: La Realtà non è come ci appare.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-272) and index.
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