Author: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is based on a conference held at Oxford in the Spring of 1984 to discuss Quantum Gravity. As an assessment of the present status of quantum theory which also considers future developments, this book should provide much stimulating material for both researchers and post graduate students in theortical and mathematical physics.
Quantum Concepts in Space and Time
Author: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is based on a conference held at Oxford in the Spring of 1984 to discuss Quantum Gravity. As an assessment of the present status of quantum theory which also considers future developments, this book should provide much stimulating material for both researchers and post graduate students in theortical and mathematical physics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is based on a conference held at Oxford in the Spring of 1984 to discuss Quantum Gravity. As an assessment of the present status of quantum theory which also considers future developments, this book should provide much stimulating material for both researchers and post graduate students in theortical and mathematical physics.
Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?
Author: Avshalom C. Elitzur
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540266690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Each contribution is an article in itself, and great effort has been made by the authors to be lucid and not too technical. A few brief highlights of the round-table discussions are given between the chapters. Topics include: Quantum non-locality, the measurement problem, quantum insights into relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics, and possible bearings of quantum mechanics to biology and consciousness. Authors include Yakir Aharanov and Anton Zeilinger, plus Nobel laureates Anthony J. Leggett (2003) and Gerardus ‘t Hooft (1999). Foreword written by Sir Roger Penrose, best-selling author (The Emperor's New Mind) and world-renowned mathematical physicist.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540266690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Each contribution is an article in itself, and great effort has been made by the authors to be lucid and not too technical. A few brief highlights of the round-table discussions are given between the chapters. Topics include: Quantum non-locality, the measurement problem, quantum insights into relativity, cosmology and thermodynamics, and possible bearings of quantum mechanics to biology and consciousness. Authors include Yakir Aharanov and Anton Zeilinger, plus Nobel laureates Anthony J. Leggett (2003) and Gerardus ‘t Hooft (1999). Foreword written by Sir Roger Penrose, best-selling author (The Emperor's New Mind) and world-renowned mathematical physicist.
The Physical Basis of The Direction of Time
Author: H. Dieter Zeh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662027593
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The asymmetry of natural phenomena under time reversal is striking. Here Zehinvestigates the most important classes of physical phenomena that characterize the arrow of time, discussing their interrelations as well as striving to uncover a cosmological common root of the phenomena, such as the time-independent wave function of the universe. The description of irreversible phenomena is shown to be fundamentally "observer-related". Both physicists and philosophers of science who reviewed the first edition considered this book a magnificent survey, a concise, technically sophisticated, up-to-date discussion of the subject, showing fine sensivity to some of the crucial philosophicalsubtleties. This new and expanded edition will be welcomed by both students and specialists.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662027593
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The asymmetry of natural phenomena under time reversal is striking. Here Zehinvestigates the most important classes of physical phenomena that characterize the arrow of time, discussing their interrelations as well as striving to uncover a cosmological common root of the phenomena, such as the time-independent wave function of the universe. The description of irreversible phenomena is shown to be fundamentally "observer-related". Both physicists and philosophers of science who reviewed the first edition considered this book a magnificent survey, a concise, technically sophisticated, up-to-date discussion of the subject, showing fine sensivity to some of the crucial philosophicalsubtleties. This new and expanded edition will be welcomed by both students and specialists.
The Special Theory of Relativity
Author: David Bohm
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148092
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The book presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole. By showing that the concepts of this theory are interrelated to form a unified totality David Bohm supplements some of the more specialist courses which have tended to give students a fragmentary impression of the logical and conceptual nature of physics as a whole.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415148092
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The book presents the theory of relativity as a unified whole. By showing that the concepts of this theory are interrelated to form a unified totality David Bohm supplements some of the more specialist courses which have tended to give students a fragmentary impression of the logical and conceptual nature of physics as a whole.
Time and Chance
Author: David Z Albert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time. The situation (very briefly) is that it is a consequence of almost every one of those fundamental scientific pictures--and that it is at the same time radically at odds with our common sense--that whatever can happen can just as naturally happen backwards. Albert provides an unprecedentedly clear, lively, and systematic new account--in the context of a Newtonian-Mechanical picture of the world--of the ultimate origins of the statistical regularities we see around us, of the temporal irreversibility of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, of the asymmetries in our epistemic access to the past and the future, and of our conviction that by acting now we can affect the future but not the past. Then, in the final section of the book, he generalizes the Newtonian picture to the quantum-mechanical case and (most interestingly) suggests a very deep potential connection between the problem of the direction of time and the quantum-mechanical measurement problem. The book aims to be both an original contribution to the present scientific and philosophical understanding of these matters at the most advanced level, and something in the nature of an elementary textbook on the subject accessible to interested high-school students.
The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception
Author: R. Buccheri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401001553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
There are very few concepts that fascinate equally a theoretical physicist studying black holes and a patient undergoing seriolls mental psychosis. Time, undoubtedly, can well be ranked among them. For the measure of time inside a black hole is no less bizarre than the perception of time by a schizophrenic, who may perceive it as completely "suspended," "standing still," or even "reversing its direction. " The nature of time is certainly shrouded in profound mystery. This, perhaps, since the concept entails multifarious, and occasionally incongruous, facets. No wonder the subject attracts the serious attention of scholars on the one hand, and of the lay public on the other. Our Advanced Research Workshop is an excellent il lustration of this point, as the reader will soon discover. It turned out to be a unique professional forum for an unusually lively, effective and fruitful exchange of ideas and beliefs among 48 participants from 20 countries worldwide, selected out of more than a hundred applicants. The present book is based on the select talks presented at the meeting, and aims to provide the interested layperson and specialist alike with a multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date scholarly research on the nature of time. It represents a coherent, state-of-the-art volume showing that research relevant to this topic is necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore such delicate issues as "altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401001553
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
There are very few concepts that fascinate equally a theoretical physicist studying black holes and a patient undergoing seriolls mental psychosis. Time, undoubtedly, can well be ranked among them. For the measure of time inside a black hole is no less bizarre than the perception of time by a schizophrenic, who may perceive it as completely "suspended," "standing still," or even "reversing its direction. " The nature of time is certainly shrouded in profound mystery. This, perhaps, since the concept entails multifarious, and occasionally incongruous, facets. No wonder the subject attracts the serious attention of scholars on the one hand, and of the lay public on the other. Our Advanced Research Workshop is an excellent il lustration of this point, as the reader will soon discover. It turned out to be a unique professional forum for an unusually lively, effective and fruitful exchange of ideas and beliefs among 48 participants from 20 countries worldwide, selected out of more than a hundred applicants. The present book is based on the select talks presented at the meeting, and aims to provide the interested layperson and specialist alike with a multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date scholarly research on the nature of time. It represents a coherent, state-of-the-art volume showing that research relevant to this topic is necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore such delicate issues as "altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics.
The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Author: Ruth E. Kastner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830447
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics and its compatibility with relativity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830447
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics and its compatibility with relativity.
The Physics of Time Asymmetry
Author: John Turner
Publisher: Intertext Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Monograph on forecasting techniques and planning methodology in current practice by industrial enterprise management in the UK - includes a description of the research method and analysis of research results. Bibliography pp. 145 to 157, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Publisher: Intertext Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Monograph on forecasting techniques and planning methodology in current practice by industrial enterprise management in the UK - includes a description of the research method and analysis of research results. Bibliography pp. 145 to 157, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Measurements of the WZ Di-boson Production Cross Section at [center of Mass Energy]
Author: Rahmi Ünalan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cross sections (Nuclear physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cross sections (Nuclear physics)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Atomic Calculation of Photoionization Cross-sections and Asymmetry Parameters
Author: J.-J. Yeh
Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Pub
ISBN: 9782881245855
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book presents the results of atomic calculations of subshell and total photoionization cross-sections and asymmetry parameters as a function of photon energies below 1.5 KeV. The book provides graphical data for the dipole-length approximation and includes ASCII text data on floppy diskettes for all approximations calculated in the same model. The data files may be exported to IBM PC/XT and AT or compatible computers or printers. Installation requires 6Mb of temporary memory. j.J. Yeh, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Pub
ISBN: 9782881245855
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book presents the results of atomic calculations of subshell and total photoionization cross-sections and asymmetry parameters as a function of photon energies below 1.5 KeV. The book provides graphical data for the dipole-length approximation and includes ASCII text data on floppy diskettes for all approximations calculated in the same model. The data files may be exported to IBM PC/XT and AT or compatible computers or printers. Installation requires 6Mb of temporary memory. j.J. Yeh, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA