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The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos / edited by John Brockman.

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ISBN 9780062296085 (paperback)
Title The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos / edited by John Brockman.
Edition First edition.
Publisher/Date New York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2014]
©2014
Pagination etc. xii, 379 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents note 1. A golden age of cosmology / Alan Guth -- 2. The cyclic universe / Paul Steinhardt -- 3. The inflationary universe / Alan Guth -- 4. A balloon producing balloons producing balloons / Andrei Linde -- 5. Theories of the brane / Lisa Randall -- 6. The cyclic universe / Neil Turok -- 7. Why does the universe look the way it does? / Sean Carroll -- 8. In the matrix / Martin Rees -- 9. Think about nature / Lee Smolin -- 10. The landscape / Leonard Susskind -- 11. Smolin vs. Susskind: the anthropic principle / Lee Smolin, Leonard Susskind -- 12. Science is not about certainty / Carlo Rovelli -- 13. The energy of empty apace that isn't zero / Lawrence Krauss -- 14. Einstein: an Edge symposium / Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Paul Steinhardt -- 15. Einstein and Poincaré / Peter Galison -- 16. Thinking about the universe on the larger scales / Raphael Bousso -- 17. Quantum monkeys / Seth Lloyd -- 18. The Nobel Prize and after / Frank Wilczek -- 19. Who cares about fireflies? / Steven Strogatz -- 20. Constructor Theory / David Deutsch -- 21. A theory of roughness / Benoit Mandelbrot.
Summary Note Explore the universe with today's greatest physicists. In the wake of one of the most groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs in modern times, the March 2014 discovery of gravitational ripples from the Big Bang--an apparent confirmation of Alan Guth and Andrei Linde's theory of cosmic inflation--John Brockman of Edge.org has gathered together some of the world's best minds to explain the universe as we currently know it. The contributors--many pioneering theoretical physicists and cosmologists, including Guth and Linde--provide an extraordinary picture of cosmology as it has developed over the past three decades. Alan Guth and Andrei Linde explain the Inflationary Universe theory. Lee Smolin discusses the nature of time. Lisa Randall and Neil Turok elaborate on the theory of branes, two-dimensional structures arising from string theory--whose existence is central to the cyclic universe. Seth Lloyd investigates how the universe behaves like a self-programming computer. Lawrence Krauss provides fresh insight into gravity, dark matter, and the energy of empty space. Brian Greene and Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson speculate on how Albert Einstein might view the theoretical physics of the twenty-first century. The late Benoit Mandelbrot looks back on a long career devoted to fractal geometry. Plus Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, Stanford's Leonard Susskind, Oxford's David Deutsch, Cornell's Steven Strogatz, Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton Paul Steinhardt, and more!
Subject Cosmology
Cosmology -- Research
Physics
Added Author Brockman, John, 1941- editor of compilation.
Shelf Location 523.1 UNIV
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