Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Autor Anthony Aguirreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2020
'A unique and beautifully written masterpiece' Max Tegmark, author ofLife 3.0
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe?
Through more than fifty Koans - pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition - leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes us across the world from Japan to Italy, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth and depth of the Universe. Using these beguiling stories and a flair for explaining complex science, he covers cosmic questions that giants from Aristotle to Galileo to Heisenberg have grappled with - from the nature of time to the origin of multiple universes to the meaning of quantum theory.
Playful and enlightening,Cosmological Koansinvites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order, giving us what Einstein called 'the most beautiful and deepest experience' anyone can have - a sense of the mysterious.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141991764
ISBN-10: 0141991763
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141991763
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Anthony
Aguirreis
a
professor
of
physics
at
the
University
of
California-Santa
Cruz
and
co-founder
of
the
Foundational
Questions
Institute.
Recenzii
This
unique
and
beautifully
written
masterpiece
transforms
the
deepest
mysteries
of
our
universe
into
a
captivating
and
accessible
quest
for
personal
enlightenment
A gem of a book
A delight for readers raised onGödel, Escher, BachandThe Dancing Wu Li Masters
This is calisthenics for the mind - it will stretch your imagination almost to the breaking point, and your understanding of reality will come away more healthy and flexible than before
A truly creative exploration of physics and its profound insights into the Universe
The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics. . . What Aguirre does remarkably well is to find a way of threading many of the most interesting questions in theoretical physics onto a single narrative chain. . . At its heart the book offers a compelling answer to the question of how to talk about the un-talk-about-able
A gem of a book
A delight for readers raised onGödel, Escher, BachandThe Dancing Wu Li Masters
This is calisthenics for the mind - it will stretch your imagination almost to the breaking point, and your understanding of reality will come away more healthy and flexible than before
A truly creative exploration of physics and its profound insights into the Universe
The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics. . . What Aguirre does remarkably well is to find a way of threading many of the most interesting questions in theoretical physics onto a single narrative chain. . . At its heart the book offers a compelling answer to the question of how to talk about the un-talk-about-able