Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime - Rilegato

Carroll, Sean

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ISBN 10: 1786076330 ISBN 13: 9781786076335

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2019

Riassunto

From the Royal Society Winton Prize winner `Sean Carroll examines what it means to exist on this speck of dust in a possibly infinite universe. It's fascinating to see a real working physicist thinking these things through and trying to come to a conclusion.' - Professor Brian Cox on The Big Picture, a Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world. Spanning the history of quantum discoveries, from Einstein and Bohr to the present day, Something Deeply Hidden is the essential guide to the most intriguing subject in science. Acclaimed physicist and writer Sean Carroll debunks the myths, resurrects and reinstates the Many-Worlds interpretation, and presents a new path towards solving the apparent conflict between quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity. In doing so, he fills a gap in the science that has existed for almost a century. A magisterial tour, Something Deeply Hidden encompasses the cosmological and everyday implications of quantum reality and multiple universes. And - finally - it all makes sense.

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Such books are valuable because they explain and present not only the things we ve learned about a relatively esoteric subject, but link those discoveries to our experience. Learning about nature teaches us about ourselves and how we should behave. I think that the best science books make that connection.

--(Brian Cox on The Big Picture)

A thrilling tour through what is perhaps humankind s greatest intellectual achievement quantum mechanics. With bold clarity, Carroll deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality. --Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe

Sean Carroll s immensely enjoyable Something Deeply Hidden brings readers face-to-face with the fundamental quantum weirdness of the universe or should I say universes? And by the end, you may catch yourself finding quantum weirdness not all that weird. --Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong

L'autore

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. In addition to the Royal Society Winton Prize, he has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. He lives in Los Angeles. Follow him @seanmcarroll and read his blog at preposterousuniverse.com.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1786076330
• ISBN 13: 9781786076335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 347