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Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire [electronic resource] the biggest ideas in science from Quanta
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| 서명/저자사항 | Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire : the biggest ideas in science from Quanta/ edited by Thomas Lin ; foreword by Sean Carroll. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Lin, Thomas(Journalist), editor, |
| 발행사항 | [Cambridge, MA]: The MIT Press, [2018]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire. [Cambridge, Massachusetts] : The MIT Press, [2018] 9780262536349 |
| ISBN | 9780262350518 0262350513 9780262350501 0262350505 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Intro; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; I. WHY DOESN'T OUR UNIVERSE MAKE SENSE?; IS NATURE UNNATURAL?; COSMIC COINCIDENCE; DARK DILEMMA; LIFE IN A MULTIVERSE; ALICE AND BOB MEET THE WALL OF FIRE; THE "MENU FROM HELL"; AN ENTANGLED PARADOX; TOWARD QUANTUM GRAVITY; WORMHOLES UNTANGLE A BLACK HOLE PARADOX; THE BLACK HOLE WARS; HOLES IN THE WORMHOLE; HOW QUANTUM PAIRS STITCH SPACE-TIME; MANY BODIES, ONE NETWORK; SPACE-TIME'S BOUNDARIES; IN A MULTIVERSE, WHAT ARE THE ODDS?; ETERNAL INFLATION; ONE FOR THE MULTIVERSE; MEASURING THE MULTIVERSE; THE CAUSAL DIAMOND; MAKING PREDICTIONS MULTIVERSE COLLISIONS MAY DOT THE SKYWHEN BUBBLES COLLIDE; WAVES OF TRANSLATION; THE MULTIVERSE'S CASE FOR STRING THEORY; UNCERTAIN SIGNALS; HOW FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS ALMOST SAVED SPACE; I.; II.; III.; IV.; V.; VI.; II. WHAT IS QUANTUM REALITY, REALLY?; A JEWEL AT THE HEART OF QUANTUM PHYSICS; CLUNKY MACHINERY; THE AMPLITUHEDRON; QUEST FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY; NEW SUPPORT FOR ALTERNATIVE QUANTUM VIEW; SAVING PARTICLE POSITIONS; FASTER THAN LIGHT; ENTANGLEMENT MADE SIMPLE; I.; II.; III.; IV.; QUANTUM THEORY REBUILT FROM SIMPLE PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; THE FLIMSY FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS QUANTUM ROULETTEBITS AND PIECES; MAKING SPACE FOR GRAVITY; III. WHAT IS TIME?; TIME'S ARROW TRACED TO QUANTUM SOURCE; QUANTUM WEIRDNESS NOW A MATTER OF TIME; HOW TIME ENTANGLEMENT WORKS; QUANTUM TIME CAPSULES; THE NATURE OF SPACE-TIME; A DEBATE OVER THE PHYSICS OF TIME; TIME SWEPT UNDER THE RUG; THE ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS OF TIME; THE PROBLEM WITH THE FUTURE; IV. WHAT IS LIFE?; A NEW PHYSICS THEORY OF LIFE; HOW LIFE (AND DEATH) SPRING FROM DISORDER; DISORDER AND DEMONS; INANIMATE DARWINISM; PREDICTION MACHINES; THE THERMODYNAMICS OF DEATH; IN NEWLY CREATED LIFE-FORM, A MAJOR MYSTERY MINIMAL DESIGNDWINDLING TO ZERO; BREAKTHROUGH DNA EDITOR BORN OF BACTERIA; A REPEAT MYSTERY; CUT AND PASTE; THE HIDDEN TRUTH; NEW LETTERS ADDED TO THE GENETIC ALPHABET; BETTER BLUEPRINTS FOR LIFE; WHY LIFE'S CODE IS LIMITED; THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF LIFE'S COMPLEXITY; A SUM OF VARIED PARTS; THE FRUIT-FLY TEST; MOLECULAR COMPLEXITY; FIXING MISTAKES; ANCIENT SURVIVORS COULD REDEFINE SEX; WHY SEX IS POPULAR; JUMBLED CHROMOSOMES; A NEW KIND OF SEX; DID NEURONS EVOLVE TWICE?; THE FIRST SPLIT; THE SPARK OF THOUGHT; V. WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?; HOW HUMANS EVOLVED SUPERSIZE BRAINS WHAT MAKES THE HUMAN BRAIN SPECIALHOW GENES BUILD THE BRAIN; BRAIN AND BODY; NEW EVIDENCE FOR THE NECESSITY OF LONELINESS; SOCIAL CREATURES; SPECTRUM OF LONELINESS; HOW NEANDERTHAL DNA HELPS HUMANITY; THE NEANDERTHAL WITHIN; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; THE NEUROSCIENCE BEHIND BAD DECISIONS; DIVIDE AND CONQUER; ECONOMIC INSURGENCY; INFANT BRAINS REVEAL HOW THE MIND GETS BUILT; ORGANIZED FROM BIRTH?; A PLACE FOR FACES; THE FLEXIBLE BRAIN; HOW DO MACHINES LEARN?; IS ALPHAGO REALLY SUCH A BIG DEAL?; NEW THEORY CRACKS OPEN THE BLACK BOX OF DEEP LEARNING; THE BOTTLENECK |
| 요약 | A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine. |
| 일반주제명 | Physics --Popular works. Biology --Popular works. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. SCIENCE / Physics / General. Biology. Physics. |
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