Numeri, teoremi & minotauri : perché la nuova scienza non è affatto scientifica [e-book] / Roger Penrose ; trad. di Carlo Capararo, Daniele Didero, Stefano Galli
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Penrose, Roger
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| Titolo: |
Numeri, teoremi & minotauri : perché la nuova scienza non è affatto scientifica [e-book] / Roger Penrose ; trad. di Carlo Capararo, Daniele Didero, Stefano Galli
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (666 p.) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 530.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Physics - Philosophy |
| Physics - Social aspects | |
| String models | |
| Quantum theory | |
| Cosmology | |
| Classificazione: | LC QC30 |
| AMS 14N10 | |
| Note generali: | Fashion, faith, and fantasy in the new physics of the universe [Tit. orig.] |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Nota di contenuto: | Fashion. Mathematical elegance as a driving force ; Some fashionable physics of the past ; Particle-physics background to string theory ; The superposition principle in QFT ; The power of Feynman diagrams ; The original key ideas of string theory ; Time in Einstein's general relativity ; Weyl's gauge theory of electromagnetism ; Functional freedom in Kaluza-Klein and string models ; Quantum obstructions to functional freedom? ; Classical instability of higher-dimensional string theory ; The fashionable status of string theory ; M-theory ; Supersymmetry ; AdS/CFT ; Brane-worlds and the landscape -- Faith. The quantum revelation ; Max Planck's E = hv ; The wave-particle paradox ; Quantum and classical levels : C, U, and R ; Wave function of a point-like particle ; Wave function of a photon ; Quantum linearity ; Quantum measurement ; The geometry of quantum spin ; Quantum entanglement and EPR effects ; Quantum functional freedom ; Quantum reality ; Objective quantum state reduction : a limit to the quantum faith? -- Fantasy. The Big Bang and FLRW cosmologies ; Black holes and local irregularities ; The second law of thermodynamics ; The Big Bang paradox ; Horizons, comoving volumes, and conformal diagrams ; The phenomenal precision in the Big Bang ; Cosmological entropy? ; Vacuum energy ; Inflationary cosmology ; The anthropic principle ; Some more fantastical cosmologies -- A new physics for the universe? Twistor theory : an alternative to strings? ; Whither quantum foundations? ; Conformal crazy cosmology? ; A personal coda -- Appendix A. Mathematical appendix. Iterated exponents ; Functional freedom of fields ; Vector spaces ; Vector bases, coordinates, and duals ; Mathematics of manifolds ; Manifolds in physics ; Bundles ; Functional freedom via bundles ; Complex numbers ; Complex geometry ; Harmonic analysis |
| Restrizioni accesso: | Available for digital lending on MLOL platform - please ask for credentials to the Library staff |
| ISBN: | 9788858688922 |
| 9788817092272 | |
| Formato: | Software  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Italiano |
| Record Nr.: | 991003810129707536 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. del Salento |
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