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* Read # Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose î eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to "conformal cyclic cosmology," an idea
| Title | : | Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691119791 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 520 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
This is an extremely important role, and long may Penrose fulfill it."--Marcus Chown, Times Higher Education"Beautifully produced, beautifully laid-out and diagrammed. "Penrose's insistence on finding clever experimental tests for novel theories is the only way physics will break free from its deadlock."--Konstantin Kakaes, Wall Street Journal"I can't recommend Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe too highly to anyone with a serious interest in fundamental questions about physics."--Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong blog"In standing outside the fray and criticising the central dogmas of fundamental physics, Penrose is playing the role of Einstein, who forced quantum theorists to defend and hone their ideas, and Sir Fred Hoyle, who persistently challenged Big Bang theorists to sharpen their ideas. There is possibl
Not an easy read, very detailed, excellent rendering in Kindle format This is a very powerful if complicated book. It does not appear to be written to the lay audience but to the author's peers and those who aspire to be his peers -- graduate students in mathematics, physics, and cosmology. Dr. Penrose tells us at the outset that he will decouple the more complicated mathematics from the text and place it in appendices which are heavily referenced and linked throughout the text. But even this concession is more about a reasonable pace for the text and all the subject matter covered rather than to save people like me the math. There remains plenty of math in the text itself, something a physicist. Creative, original and idiosyncratic - but really aimed at his colleagues Roger Penrose is now 85 and this book may be the final presentation of his worldview. Although he talks about the 'layman' as his audience, potential readers should recall "The Road to Reality". In Amazon reviews of that tome, retired maths professors and physics PhDs lined up to recount at which chapter they hit the limits of their knowledge and had to give up.This volume is not so different.In a nutshell:1. Penrose dislikes String Theory because its extra dimensions admit too many functional degrees of freedom (basically the number of possible field configurations). It is not explained clearly why the super-explosion in the . Alan F. Sewell said No-holds-barred Physics!. Based on the whimsical title FAITH, FASHION, AND FANTASY (the title is embellished with whimsical fonts as well!) I thought this would be one of those engrossing popular physics books written to get the public excited about the newest thinking in physics, which seeks to meld Einstein’s Theory of Relativity with Quantum Mechanics and with the biological aspects of human consciousness.Roger Penrose is renowned for doing that. Born in 19No-holds-barred Physics! Based on the whimsical title FAITH, FASHION, AND FANTASY (the title is embellished with whimsical fonts as well!) I thought this would be one of those engrossing popular physics books written to get the public excited about the newest thinking in physics, which seeks to meld Einstein’s Theory of Relativity with Quantum Mechanics and with the biological aspects of human consciousness.Roger Penrose is renowned for doing that. Born in 1931, he has lived on the cutting edge of physics, cosmology, and brain function from the 1950s to the present. I had encountered his work as portrayed by authors of popular physics books, and. 1, he has lived on the cutting edge of physics, cosmology, and brain function from the 1950s to the present. I had encountered his work as portrayed by authors of popular physics books, and
Roger Penrose, one the world's foremost theoretical physicists, has won numerous prizes, including the Albert Einstein Medal, for his fundamental contributions to general relativity and cosmology. Penrose's other books include Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe and The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide t
In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to "conformal cyclic cosmology," an idea so fantastic that it could be called "conformal crazy cosmology."The result is an important critique of some of the most significant developments in physics today from one of its most eminent figures.. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them.
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