epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Bob Berman

11 SPACE OUT Ye Gods! Annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. —Alexander Pope (1728) How do our animal minds apprehend the world? We’ve all been taught ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Oriti, Daniele

The spin foam representation of loop quantum gravity 289 Acknowledgement I would like to thank M. Mondragon for careful reading of the manuscript and D. Oriti for his effort and ...

mobi |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:Sean Carroll

The Big Picture 237 The resulting images have a high degree of apparent complexity; in order to describe them accurately, you would have to actually specify the intricate shape of ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:K. C. Cole [Cole, K. C.]

A STRING OF MIRACLES It’s as if some guys had set out to design a better can opener and wound up with an interstellar space ship. And then, they spent ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Alain Connes & Shahn Majid [Connes, Alain & Majid, Shahn]

BIBLIOGRAPHY Beggs, E. J. and Majid, S. (2001) Poisson-Lie T-duality for quasitriangular Lie bialgebras, Commun. Math. Phys. 220, 455–88. Brunetti, R., Fredenhagen, K. and Verch, R. (2003) The generally covariant ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:Brian Cox

Figure 6.5 The origin of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Dicke and his colleagues made these observations having just heard the news that, away at the Bell Laboratories in ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Timothy Clifton [Clifton, Timothy]

The effect of a gravitational wave To try and make sense of what a gravitational wave is, it might be useful to consider what its effects should be on a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jan Guichelaar

A few of De Sitter’s students Jan Woltjer Jr. (1891–1946) Woltjer studied in Amsterdam and Leiden. From 1913 onwards he worked at the Observatory in Leiden. He received his doctor’s ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Yardley, Ilexa [Yardley, Ilexa]

Any surprise must arise from an unsurprising reality, and, perhaps, more interestingly, an unsurprising reality must erupt from a sea of surprises. Thus, once again, we have circle. We can ...

epub |eng | | Author:Friedel Weinert

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Friedel WeinertThe Demons of Science10.1007/978-3-319-31708-3_15 15. Maxwell’s Demon Friedel Weinert1 (1)Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK Friedel Weinert Email: [email protected] Maxwell’s ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fred C. Adams & Greg Laughlin

BASIC BLACK HOLE WEIRDNESS Black holes make a mockery of our common sense ideas concerning space and time. During the Black Hole Era, the universe becomes a very alien place. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Anthony Aguirre

Our minds are quite good at understanding small numbers like 3 and 46: we can crisply picture 3 objects, and we have a clear, if hazy, sense of what 46 ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]

Fig. 6.4. In order to “see” an object with particles, the object must have sufficient mass to scatter the incoming particles. Here ping pong balls are easily scattered by a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Gerald L. Schroeder [Schroeder, Gerald L.]

CHOOSING A REASONABLE MODEL FOR CONVERGENT EVOLUTION I want to learn the statistical probability that nature will produce, independently by random mutations, two structures that are externally similar, although they ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]

Currently, in the Connectome Project researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere are trying to map some of the trillions of connections between nerve cells in mammalian brains, ...