Everything is Now: Revolutionary Ideas from String Theory
暫譯: 一切皆是：弦理論的革命性思想

Spence, Bill

Everything is Now: Revolutionary Ideas from String Theory
  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2020-10-28
  • 售價: $7,740
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $7,353
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 82
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0367490234
  • ISBN-13: 9780367490232

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商品描述

This engaging and beautifully written book gives an authoritative but accessible account of some of the most exciting and unexpected recent developments in theoretical physics.

- Professor Lionel J Mason, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

String theory is often paraded as a theory of everything, but there are a large number of untold stories in which string theory gives us insight into other areas of physics. Here, Bill Spence does an excellent job of explaining the deep connections between string theory, particle physics, and the novel way of viewing space and time.

- Professor David Tong, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge　

Foremost amongst Nature's closest-guarded secrets is how to unite Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum theory - thereby creating a 'quantum space-time'. This problem has been unsolved now for more than a century, with the standard methods of physics making little headway.

It is clear that much more radical ideas are needed, and our front-line researchers are showing that string theory provides these. This book describes these extraordinary developments, which are helping us to think in entirely new ways about how physical reality may be structured at its deepest level.

Amongst these ideas are that

  • Everything can happen at the same time - it is all Now;

  • Hidden spaces, large and small, are everywhere amongst us;

  • The basic objects are 'membranes' that behave like soap bubbles and can explore the shape of spacetime in new ways;

  • We are holographic projections from higher dimensions;

  • You can take the 'square root' of gravity;

  • Ideas from the ancient Greeks are resurfacing in a beautiful new form;

  • And the very latest work shows that 'staying positive' is essential.

The book is aimed at a general audience, using analogies, diagrams, and simple examples throughout. It is intended as a brief tour, enabling the reader to become aware of the main ideas and recent work. A full list of further resources is supplied.

Bill Spence is the founding Director of the Centre for Research in String Theory at Queen Mary University of London. He has worked on string theory for over three decades.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本引人入勝且文筆優美的書籍，提供了對一些最令人興奮和意想不到的理論物理學最新發展的權威但易於理解的敘述。
- 牛津大學數學研究所的萊昂內爾·J·梅森教授

弦理論常被宣揚為萬有理論，但在弦理論中還有許多未被講述的故事，讓我們對物理學的其他領域有了深入的見解。在這裡，比爾·斯賓斯出色地解釋了弦理論、粒子物理學以及對時空的新觀點之間的深刻聯繫。
- 劍橋大學應用數學與理論物理系的戴維·唐教授

自然界最為保密的秘密之一是如何將愛因斯坦的引力理論與量子理論結合起來，從而創造出“量子時空”。這個問題至今已經未解超過一個世紀，傳統的物理方法幾乎沒有進展。

顯然，需要更為激進的想法，而我們的前線研究人員正在顯示弦理論提供了這些想法。這本書描述了這些非凡的發展，幫助我們以全新的方式思考物理現實在其最深層次的結構。

這些想法中包括：
- 一切都可以同時發生——一切都是現在；
- 隱藏的空間，無論大小，無處不在；
- 基本物體是“膜”，它們像肥皂泡一樣行為，並能以新的方式探索時空的形狀；
- 我們是來自更高維度的全息投影；
- 你可以取引力的“平方根”；
- 古希臘的思想以美麗的新形式重新浮現；
- 而最新的研究顯示，“保持積極”是至關重要的。

這本書面向一般讀者，貫穿使用類比、圖示和簡單的例子。它旨在提供一個簡短的導覽，使讀者能夠了解主要思想和最新研究。書中還提供了完整的進一步資源列表。

比爾·斯賓斯是倫敦女王瑪麗大學弦理論研究中心的創始主任，他在弦理論方面工作了超過三十年。

作者簡介

Bill Spence is Professor of Theoretical Physics and founder of the Centre for Research in String Theory at Queen Mary University of London.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

比爾·斯賓斯（Bill Spence）是倫敦大學女王瑪麗學院的理論物理學教授，也是弦理論研究中心的創始人。

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