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Titolo |
2001, a spacetime odyssey [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics : Michigan, USA, 21-25 May 2001 / / foreword by Sheldon L. Glashow ; editors, Michael J. Duff, James T. Liu |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 228 p. ) : ill., ports |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physics |
Astronomy |
Space and time |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Conference held at the University of Michigan. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Astrophysical Neutrinos: 20th Century and Beyond (J N Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton); The Case for Discrete Energy Levels of a Black Hole (J D Bekenstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); The Measure of Cosmological Parameters (W L Freedman, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena); Progress in Weakly Coupled String Phenomenology (M K Gaillard, University of California, Berkeley); Spacetime Quantum Mechanics (J B Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara); Inflation and String Cosmology (A Linde, Stanford University); Spacetime and Vacuum as Seen from Moscow (L B Okun, ITEP, Moscow); The Dark Side of the Universe (J Silk, Oxford University); Geometry and Spacetime (S-T Yau, Harvard University); and other papers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time - Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum physics. This work presents developments in cosmology, theoretical physics and mathematics, and covers the future of spacetime physics. |
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