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the journey to quantum gravity

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An edition of Reality is not what it seems (2017)

Reality is not what it seems

the journey to quantum gravity

First American edition.

by

  • ★★★ 3.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 6 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

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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Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
280

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Quantum gravity, New York Times reviewed, Reality, Space and time, Physics, popular works, Universe, Popular works
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Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity
2017, Riverhead Books
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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.

Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
530.14/3
Library of Congress
QC178 .R69313 2017, QC178.R69313 2017

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280 pages
Number of pages
280

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OL27223604M
ISBN 10
0735213925
ISBN 13
9780735213920
LCCN
2016036293
OCLC/WorldCat
957696600
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01FEY5E3O

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