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El. knyga: Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory: Take Your Understanding of Physics into a Whole New Dimension!

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  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2008
  • Leidėjas: Alpha Books
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780241882863
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Looks at the scientific concepts and principles behind a "theory of everything," a set of laws of physics that can explain everything from the tiniest subatomic particle to the universe as a whole, and their implications for the world of science as a whole. Original.

Scientific American staff editor and writer Musser offers general readers an explanation of string theory and how it measures up against other theories about the deepest workings of nature. Coverage includes an overview of string theory; the clashing worldviews of Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum theory; the need for a unifying theory; string theory and other approaches to a unified theory; expanding concepts of reality, such as higher dimensions of space, parallel universes, novel behaviors, new interrelationships among types of matter and forces, and the idea that time and space are composed of something that is timeless and spaceless; and how string theory has been used to understand phenomena such as black holes, the big bang, and quantum theory. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Part 1: String Theory in a Nutshell
1(24)
What Is String Theory?
3(10)
The Ultimate Symphony
3(4)
Alternative Music
7(1)
Big Things Come in Small Packages
8(1)
String Instruments
9(4)
Why Should Anybody Care?
13(12)
The Tree of Physics
13(2)
The Joy of Unification
15(3)
Why Is This Theory Unlike All Others?
18(2)
Big Ideas Don't Like to Be Cooped Up
20(2)
Sense and Transcendence
22(1)
A Shared Effort
23(2)
Part 2: The Great Clash of Worldviews
25(60)
Einstein's Theories
27(16)
Trains of Thought
27(3)
There's No Time Like the Present
30(2)
Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
32(2)
Space and Time, Unite!
34(2)
Think Globally, Act Locally
36(1)
Mass and Energy
37(2)
Atlas Shrugs
39(4)
The Quantum Revolution
43(16)
Not as Weird as They Say
43(2)
Seven Insights of Quantum Theory
45(2)
The Games Quanta Play
47(5)
Bell's Shells
48(1)
An Even Odder Game
49(1)
Figuring Out the Trick
50(2)
Wave of Chance
52(2)
The Clone Armies
54(2)
The Undocumented Feature
56(3)
The Standard Model of Particles
59(12)
Zen and the Art of Particle Physics
60(1)
A Tale of Two Particles
61(4)
Particles of Matter
62(1)
Particles of Force
63(2)
Particles and Fields
65(1)
Virtual Reality
66(1)
The Weird Nuclear Force
67(4)
The World of the Small
71(14)
Small Is Different
71(5)
Getting a Grip on Particles
73(2)
Particles Come Out
75(1)
Particle Groupies
76(4)
Two Types of Forces
80(1)
The Basement of Reality
81(1)
The Hierarchy of Nature
82(3)
Part 3: The Need for Unity
85(50)
Why Unify?
87(12)
Theories of the World, Unite!
87(2)
Woe with Einstein
89(3)
That Empty Feeling
89(2)
Trying to Find the Time
91(1)
The Standard Model Gets Ratty
92(4)
Hierarchy Problems
93(3)
A Matter of Antimatter
96(1)
A Punch in the GUT
96(3)
Black Holes
99(12)
Down the Drain
99(3)
How to Make a Black Hole--or Not
101(1)
Types of Black Holes
101(1)
Black Hole Geography
102(4)
Taking the Plunge
102(3)
A Singular Problem
105(1)
Trouble on the Horizon
106(1)
The Quantum Trap Door
106(5)
The Hawking Effect
107(3)
Hints of Quantum Gravity
110(1)
The Big Bang
111(14)
Roots
111(5)
The Meaning of the Bang
113(1)
Cosmic Expansion
114(2)
Unwinding the Clock
116(3)
Cosmic Inflation
119(2)
The Ultimate Beginning
121(1)
The Dark Side
122(3)
Time Machines
125(10)
Blueprint for a Time Machine
125(5)
Wormboles
126(3)
Negative Energy
129(1)
What's Wrong with Time Machines?
130(2)
The Role of Quantum Gravity
132(3)
Part 4: Gravity Meets the Quantum
135(34)
The Paradox of the Graviton
137(10)
The Primacy of Quantum Theory
137(1)
Meet the Graviton
138(2)
Putting a Spin on It
140(1)
Caught in an Infinite Loop
141(2)
There's Too Much Room at the Bottom
143(1)
When the Ground Comes Alive
144(3)
The Music of Strings
147(12)
To Do Is to Be
147(1)
A Tangled Tale
148(2)
What Are These Strings, Anyway?
150(2)
The Inner Life of Strings
152(1)
Gravitating to Strings
153(2)
Brane Bogglers
155(4)
Playing a Different Tune
159(10)
What Else Is out There
159(1)
Loop Quantum Gravity
160(3)
Loop-d-Loop
160(1)
Atoms of Space
161(2)
Where Do Loops Stand?
163(1)
``Buckyspace''
163(1)
Domino Theory
164(2)
A Tipping Point?
166(3)
Part 5: The Big Ideas
169(68)
Extra Dimensions
171(16)
Headed in a New Direction
171(2)
From Flatland to Hyperspace
173(2)
Running Out of Space
175(2)
Escaping the Shackles
177(3)
Dimensional Shadow Puppets
178(1)
Footloose Gravity
178(2)
On the Funky Side
180(3)
Goldilocks and the Three Dimensions
183(4)
Parallel Universes
187(12)
So Many Ways to Make a Universe
188(1)
Planning for Every Contingency
189(2)
Making the Possible Real
191(5)
Level 1: Space Beyond Our Horizon
192(1)
Level 2: Bubble Universes
193(1)
Level 3: Quantum Many Worlds
194(1)
Level 4: The Mathematical Universe
195(1)
The Best of All Possible Worlds
196(3)
The Root of the Tree
199(12)
Swallowing Its Tail
199(3)
Living Off the Grid
202(4)
Dualing Points of View
202(3)
Is Anything Smaller Than Strings?
205(1)
Loops, Trees, and Sprinkles
206(2)
Does Relativity Fail?
208(3)
Symmetry
211(14)
Beauty Is Deep
211(2)
Types of Symmetries
213(5)
Who's the Most Symmetrical of Them All?
218(4)
Super Well Hidden
219(1)
Pros and Cons
220(2)
A Higher Point of View
222(3)
Emergence
225(12)
Emerging Ideas
225(2)
Reach Out and Touch Someone
227(1)
The Holographic Principle
228(5)
Down the Memory Hole
229(1)
Adventures on the Holodeck
230(1)
Stringy Holography
231(2)
Seeing Spooky Action?
233(4)
Part 6: What Has String Theory Done for You Lately?
237(88)
Black Branes and Balls of String
239(10)
Getting Warm
240(1)
Melting Pot
241(2)
A Black Hole Built of Branes
243(2)
Loop Hole
245(1)
Timed Out?
246(3)
Before the Big Bang
249(12)
Time Before Time
249(2)
Living With Inflation
251(5)
Stringy Inflation
251(1)
String Gas and Black Hole Fluid
252(1)
The Cosmic Inflection Point
253(1)
Follow the Bouncing Brane
254(2)
Loopy Cosmology
256(1)
Creation Ex Nibilo
257(1)
Darkness Falls
258(3)
Ten Ways to Test String Theory
261(16)
Testing Times
262(2)
What Is Proof?
264(1)
The Large Hadron Collider
265(3)
How the Collider Works
265(1)
What It Looks For
266(2)
Testing Dr. Einstein
268(1)
Catching Some (Cosmic) Rays
269(1)
Written on the Sky
270(1)
Gravitational Wave Detectors
271(1)
Watching Protons Fall Apart
272(1)
Seeing Dark Matter
272(1)
Cosmic Strings
273(1)
Tabletop Gravity
274(1)
Hints of Other Universes
274(3)
The String Wars
277(10)
String Theory and Its Discontents
277(1)
The 20 Years' Wars
278(2)
Making Sense of the Complaints
280(7)
``It's Taking Too Long''
280(1)
``It Can't Be Tested''
281(1)
``It Can't Explain Anything''
282(1)
``It Presumes the Shape of Spacetime''
282(1)
``It Suffers from Groupthink''
283(1)
``My Theory Is Better''
283(4)
What Now?
287(38)
Something's Missing
287(6)
What Is Time?
289(1)
Why the Quantum?
290(3)
For Philosophy
293(1)
The Comprehensibility of the Cosmos
294(3)
Appendixes
Glossary
297(18)
Selected Readings
315(10)
Index 325