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81) Dark Matter
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Four theoretical physicists describe why we believe today that "DARK MATTER" exists and speculate on what might explain it.
82) Cosmic Mysteries
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five leading physicists (Justin Khoury, Rocky Kolb, Roger Penrose, Paul Steinhardt, Scott Tremaine) describe different aspects of some of today's most captivating mysteries, from dark matter and dark energy, to the cosmological constant problem, to the question of the peculiar state of entropy at the Big Bang.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
We hear from a broad cross-section of scientists (13 in total) who give their thoughts on the pros and cons of the way researchers engage with the general public. Researchers featured in this compilation: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Claudia de Rham, Freeman Dyson, Joanna Haigh, Justin Khoury, Nick Lane, Tony Leggett, Jenny Nelson, Stephen Scherer, Paul Steinhardt, Jill Tarter, and Scott Tremaine.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Six renowned physicists (Roger Penrose, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert, Scott Tremaine and Nobel Laureates David Politzer and Tony Leggett) describe a spectrum of outstanding issues in current theoretical physics, from foundations of quantum mechanics to particle physics to astrophysics and cosmology.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ten physicists (Artur Ekert, Justin Khoury, Tony Leggett, Scott Tremaine, Freeman Dyson, Nima Arkani-Hamed, David Politzer, Paul Steinhardt, Roger Penrose, Jill Tarter) mix personal sentiments with professional experience to describe a spectrum of different issues that they're currently puzzling over.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
David Politzer, Nobel Laureate in physics, Joseph Curtin, award-winning violinmaker/acoustician, Diana Deutchs, psychologist, and neuroscientist Jennifer Groh give their different, yet reinforcing, perspectives on the science of sound and music.
89) Doing Physics
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen professional physicists provide a spectrum of fascinating glimpses into the excitement and frustrations of life at the front lines of physics research.
91) Black Holes
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five experts (Nima Arkani-Hamed, David Politzer, Roger Penrose, Artur Ekert, and Scott Tremaine) illuminate how BLACK HOLES, once thought impossible and later highly improbable, are now an indispensable part of physics, from redefining our concept of information to observational astrophysics.
92) Dark Energy
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Six renowned physicists (Roger Penrose, Tony Leggett, Justin Khoury, Freeman Dyson, Claudia de Rham, Rocky Kolb) reflect on the mystery of so-called "DARK ENERGY" - the surprising acceleration in the expansion of the universe that was discovered by two groups in 1998 and later awarded with a Nobel Prize.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla uses nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics to build a picture of our current best understanding of how the universe works"--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The award-winning science writer “packs a lot of learning into a deceptively light and enjoyable read” exploring the contentious history of the black hole (New Scientist).
For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The strange notion of a space-time abyss from which not even light escapes seemed to confound all logic. Now Marcia...
For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The strange notion of a space-time abyss from which not even light escapes seemed to confound all logic. Now Marcia...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Kermit the Frog famously said that it isn't easy being green, and in Living at Micro Scale David Dusenbery shows that it isn't easy being small - existing at the size of, say, a rotifer, a tiny multicellular animal just at the boundary between the visible and the microscopic. "Imagine," he writes, "stepping off a curb and waiting a week for your foot to hit the ground." At that scale, we would be small enough to swim inside the letter O in the word...
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Language
English
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Description
"A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that...
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