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050 00 $aQC20$b.P366 2005
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100 1 $aPenrose, Roger.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82139094
245 14 $aThe road to reality :$ba complete guide to the laws of the universe /$cRoger Penrose.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c2005.
300 $axxviii, 1099 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2004.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 1050-1085) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe roots of science -- $g2.$tAn ancient theorem and a modern question -- $g3.$tKinds of number in the physical world -- $g4.$tMagical complex numbers -- $g5.$tGeometry of logarithms, powers, and roots -- $g6.$tReal-number calculus -- $g7.$tComplex-number calculus -- $g8.$tRiemann surfaces and complex mappings -- $g9.$tFourier decomposition and hyperfunctions -- $g10.$tSurfaces -- $g11.$tHypercomplex numbers -- $g12.$tManifolds of n dimensions -- $g13.$tSymmetry groups -- $g14.$tCalculus on manifolds -- $g15.$tFibre bundles and gauge connections -- $g16.$tThe ladder of infinity -- $g17.$tSpacetime -- $g18.$tMinkowskian geometry -- $g19.$tThe classical fields of Maxwell and Einstein -- $g20.$tLagrangians and Hamiltonians -- $g21.$tThe quantum particle -- $g22.$tQuantum algebra, geometry, and spin -- $g23.$tThe entangled quantum world -- $g24.$tDirac's electron and antiparticles -- $g25.$tThe standard model of particle physics -- $g26.$tQuantum field theory -- $g27.$tThe Big Bang and its thermodynamic legacy -- $g28.$tSpeculative theories of the early universe -- $g29.$tThe measurement paradox -- $g30.$tGravity's role in quantum state reduction -- $g31.$tSupersymmetry, supra-dimensionality, and strings -- $g32.$tEinstein's narrower path; loop variables -- $g33.$tMore radical perspectives; twistor theory -- $g34.$tWhere lies the road to reality?
520 1 $a"What Roger Penrose accomplishes in this book is threefold. First, he gives us an overall narrative description of our present understanding of the universe and its physical behaviors - from the unseeable, minuscule movement of the subatomic particle to the journeys of the planets and the stars in the vastness of time and space." "Second, he evokes the extraordinary beauty that lies in the mysterious and profound relationships between these physical behaviors and the subtle mathematical ideas that explain and interpret them." "Third, Penrose comes to the arresting conclusion - as he explores the compatibility of the two grand classic theories of modern physics - that Einstein's general theory of relativity stands firm while quantum theory, as presently constituted, still needs refashioning." "Along the way, he talks about a wealth of issues, controversies, and phenomena; about the roles of various kinds of numbers in physics, ideas of calculus and modern geometry, visions of infinity, the big bang, black holes, the profound challenge of the second law of thermodynamics, string and M theory, loop quantum gravity, twistors, and educated guesses about science in the near future."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMathematical physics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082129
650 0 $aPhysical laws.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003010120
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004061543.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004061543.html
852 00 $bmil$hQC20$i.P366 2005