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Matt Strassler - Waves in an Impossible Sea, Inbunden

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Waves in an Impossible Sea

How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Av Matt Strassler

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In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter?The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one. Much like water and air, it ripples in various ways, and we ourselves, made from its ripples, can move through space as effortlessly as waves crossing an ocean. Deftly weaving together daily experience and fundamental physics-the musical universe, the enigmatic quantum, cosmic fields, and the Higgs boson-Strassler shows us how all things, familiar and unfamiliar, emerge from what seems like nothing at all.Accessible and profound, Waves in an Impossible Sea is the ultimate guide to our place in the universe.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-21
  • Mått: 152 x 236 x 38 mm
  • Vikt: 577 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 384
  • Förlag: Basic Books
  • ISBN: 9781541603295
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Matthew Strassler is a theoretical physicist, blogger, and writer whose research often takes him to the Large Hadron Collider. An associate of the Harvard University Physics Department and a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, he was previously a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, and Rutgers University. He lives in rural Massachusetts.

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  1. 5/5 Jan

    Författaren håller mig vaken genom hela boken, som behandlar en mycket abstrakt fråga om verklighetens beskaffenhet. Några få, väl beprövade samband eller ekvationer används, när kvantfältsteorin beskrivs med tankeexperiment och resonemang, som ett aktuellt och möjligt sätt att formulera hur mikrokosmos och macrocosmos kan existera eller hänga samman.

    Författaren tar mig i handen och leder mig förbi mina sinnens och erfarenheters motstånd och in i en värld av wavicles, svängningar och resonanser.



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  2. 5/5 Endo