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Numeri, teoremi & minotauri : perché la nuova scienza non è affatto scientifica [e-book] / Roger Penrose ; trad. di Carlo Capararo, Daniele Didero, Stefano Galli
| Numeri, teoremi & minotauri : perché la nuova scienza non è affatto scientifica [e-book] / Roger Penrose ; trad. di Carlo Capararo, Daniele Didero, Stefano Galli |
| Autore | Penrose, Roger |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (666 p.) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 530.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - Philosophy
Physics - Social aspects String models Quantum theory Cosmology |
| ISBN |
9788858688922
9788817092272 |
| Classificazione |
LC QC30
AMS 14N10 |
| Formato | Software  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003810129707536 |
Penrose, Roger
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Research on physics education = Ricerca in didattica della fisica / edited by E.F. Redish and M. Vicentini, directors of the course Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 15-25 June 2003
| Research on physics education = Ricerca in didattica della fisica / edited by E.F. Redish and M. Vicentini, directors of the course Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 15-25 June 2003 |
| Autore | International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"Meeting <2003 ; Varenna, Italy> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : IOS Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xvix, 663 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Disciplina | 530.071 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Redish, Edward F.
Vicentini, Matilde |
| Altri autori (Enti) | Società Italiana di Fisica |
| Collana |
Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" ; course 156
Rendiconti della Scuola Internazionale di Fisica "Enrico Fermi" ; 156 |
| Soggetto topico | Physics - Study and teaching - Congresses |
| ISBN |
1586034251 (IOS)
8874380178 (SIF) |
| Classificazione |
LC QC30
378 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991000628299707536 |
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