The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything - Brossura

Halpern, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0471741493 ISBN 13: 9780471741497

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

Riassunto

The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr, whose theories of uncertainty threatened the order Einstein believed was essential to the universe, and it was his rejection of uncertainty that drove him to ponder the existence of a fifth dimension. Beginning with this famous disagreement and culminating with an explanation of the newest ""brane"" approach, author Paul Halpern shows how current debates about the nature of reality began as age-old controversies, and addresses how the possibility of higher dimensions has influenced culture over the past one hundred years.

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Informazioni sull'autore

PAUL HALPERN, Ph.D., is professor of physics and mathematics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship Award for the research that ultimately resulted in The Great Beyond. Halpern's previous books include Time Journeys, Cosmic Wormholes, and The Cyclical Serpent.

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Praise for The Great Beyond
 
"A marvelous book-very clear, very readable. A brilliant introduction to the math and physics of higher dimensions, from Flatland to superstrings. Its greatest strength is a wealth of fascinating historical narrative and anecdote. I enjoyed it enormously."
-Ian Stewart, author of Flatterland
 
"A remarkable journey from Plato's cave to the farthest reaches of human thought and scientific knowledge. This mind-boggling book allows readers to dream strange visions of hyperspace, chase light waves, explore Klein's quantum odyssey and Kaluza's cocoon, leap through parallel universes, and grasp the very essence of conscience and cosmos. Buy this book and feed your head."
-Clifford Pickover, author of A Passion for Mathematics
 
"Halpern looks with a bemused eye at the wildest ideas currently afoot in physics. He takes us into the personal world of those who relish and explore seemingly outlandish notions, and does it with a light, engaging style."
-Gregory Benford, author of Foundation's Fear
 
"An informative, stimulating, and thoughtful presentation at the very frontiers of contemporary physics. It is quite on a par with Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe or his more recent The Fabric of the Cosmos, and as such, deserves to receive wide non-specialist coverage among an intelligent, curious, thinking public."
-Professor E. Sheldon, Contemporary Physics

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471741493
• ISBN 13: 9780471741497
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile