Physics In Crisis From Multiverses To Fake News

Author : Bruno Mansoulie
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1800612362
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics In Crisis: From Multiverses To Fake News written by Bruno Mansoulie and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's physics has led to incredible advances in the technology we use in daily life — from cell phones and GPS systems to PET scans and more. Current theories in physics have been amazingly effective in practical terms. Yet all is far from well: the two foundational concepts in physics — Quantum Theory and General Relativity — are incompatible with each other, and observations of the universe show that our theories are incomplete — at best.While physicists have tried to paper over this impasse by inventing dark matter and dark energy, they remain unobserved mysteries. Adding fuel to the fire of current crises, artificial intelligence threatens to replace our most cherished theories and procedures with arcane algorithms. Worse yet perhaps, the public understands physics poorly, either taking it for granted or fearing and rejecting it completely.Physicists dream of a new universal theory that will completely change how we see our world, much as Einstein did with relativity and Newton with gravity. Likewise, society loves the romantic notion of a single genius heroically creating a massive paradigm shift. Still, is this scenario likely today? Perhaps the next steps in physics will be incremental rather than gigantic.In Physics in Crisis, Bruno Mansoulié uses simple language, insightful examples, and his personal experience as a working physicist to address these fundamental questions and reflect on how today's crises in physics might be solved.

Author : Christopher Saint-John Sprigg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis in Physics written by Christopher Saint-John Sprigg and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307400735
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Reborn written by Lee Smolin and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real. Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real.

Author : Christopher St. John Sprigg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis in Physics written by Christopher St. John Sprigg and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josh Peck
Publisher : Defender
ISBN 13 : 9780999189474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unraveling the Multiverse: The Christian's Guide to Quantum Physics, Entities from Higher Realities, Strange Technologies, and Ancient Prophecies written by Josh Peck and published by Defender. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is the time for the biggest revealing of otherworldly existence the world has ever seen! For the first time ever, the most up to date and shocking information from the studies of quantum physics, ufology, and the supernatural are made available to the masses. Even better yet, this information is presented in a way anybody can understand.Learn just how perfectly compatible science and religion can be and why it seems they are always at odds. Uncover what really makes up everything in existence as reality itself is examined at a quantum level. Find out if things like time travel are scientifically and biblically possible. Also discover how, for years, the extraterrestrial hypothesis has dominated the field of ufology. Yet, there is another theory that might provide more substantial answers to the UFO phenomenon. In Unraveling the Multiverse, researcher and author Josh Peck explores the fringe of the extradimensional hypothesis to show the stunning possibility that UFOs and their pilots originate from a higher dimension. Discover answers to paradigm-shifting questions, such as:¿Is there a way for science and religion to complement one another?¿Were extradimensional craft and other-worldly beings reported in antiquity?¿Does quantum physics have any place in the Bible?¿Who are the mysterious cherubim and what is their role in the affairs of mankind?¿Do biblical interpretations have any use in explaining scientific observations?¿Did nonhuman entities leave behind evidence showing their extradimensional nature?¿Is quantum physics unknowable to religious minds?¿Are higher dimensions interacting with our own?¿Must a scientific mind also be void of religion?¿Are there prophecies pointing to a possible return of extradimensional beings?¿Do things like strings, branes, multiple dimensions, parallel universes, time warps, quantum entanglement, and extradimensional beings have any place in biblical descriptions of God's creation?¿What is our true origin?¿Is there an unseen world that exists all around us?¿How do we prepare for what is ahead? ¿And much more!

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of Reality written by David Deutsch and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A leading scientist interweaves evolution, theoretical physics, and computer science to offer a new understanding of reality"--Cover.

Author : Peter Woit
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046500363X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Even Wrong written by Peter Woit and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were wrong or not. In Peter Woit's view, superstring theory is just such an idea. In Not Even Wrong , he shows that what many physicists call superstring "theory" is not a theory at all. It makes no predictions, even wrong ones, and this very lack of falsifiability is what has allowed the subject to survive and flourish. Not Even Wrong explains why the mathematical conditions for progress in physics are entirely absent from superstring theory today and shows that judgments about scientific statements, which should be based on the logical consistency of argument and experimental evidence, are instead based on the eminence of those claiming to know the truth. In the face of many books from enthusiasts for string theory, this book presents the other side of the story.

Author : Marcelo Gleiser
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683955
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing Universe written by Marcelo Gleiser and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again, with a new preface, a physicist's "exceptionally clear summary of 2,500 years of science and a fascinating account of the ways in which it often does intersect with spiritual beliefs" --Kirkus Reviews

Author : Kevin R. Grazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319150734
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollyweird Science written by Kevin R. Grazier and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthearted, quirky, and upbeat, this book explores the portrayal of science and technology on both the big and little screen -- and how Hollywood is actually doing a better job of getting it right than ever before. Grounded in the real-word, and often cutting-edge, science and technology that inspires fictional science, the authors survey Hollywood depictions of topics such as quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and alien worlds. Including material from interviews with over two dozen writers, producers, and directors of acclaimed science-themed productions -- as well as scientists, science fiction authors, and science advisors -- Hollyweird Science examines screen science fiction from the sometimes-conflicting vantage points of storytellers, researchers, and viewers. Including a foreword by Eureka co-creator and executive producer Jaime Paglia, and an afterword by astronomer and science fiction author Michael Brotherton, Ph.D., this book is accessible to all readers from the layperson to the armchair expert to the professional scientist, and will delight all of them equally.

Author : Alexander Unzicker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137365420
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bankrupting Physics written by Alexander Unzicker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scientist argues that theoretical physics has become too abstract and calls for science to return to the experimental method The recently celebrated discovery of the Higgs boson has captivated the public's imagination with the promise that it can explain the origins of everything in the universe. It's no wonder that the media refers to it grandly as the "God particle." Yet behind closed doors, physicists are admitting that there is much more to this story, and even years of gunning the Large Hadron Collider and herculean number crunching may still not lead to a deep understanding of the laws of nature. In this fascinating and eye-opening account, theoretical physicist Alexander Unzicker and science writer Sheilla Jones offer a polemic. They question whether the large-scale, multinational enterprises actually lead us to the promised land of understanding the universe. The two scientists take us on a tour of contemporary physics and show how a series of highly publicized theories met a dead end. Unzicker and Jones systematically unpack the recent hot theories such as "parallel universes," "string theory," and "inflationary cosmology," and provide an accessible explanation of each. The auhors argue that physics has abandoned its evidence-based roots and shifted to untestable mathematical theories, and they issue a clarion call for the science to return to its experimental foundation.