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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes (edizione 2017)di Zeeya Merali (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Good coverage of cosmological inflation theory (Guth, Linde, Vilenkin), leading into good coverage of theories about the spawning of "baby universes" (Hawking, Polchinski et al). (Could bombardment of a magnetic monopole in a particle accelerator really create a baby universe that boundlessly grows its own space on the inside but just looks like an ultra-tiny black hole on the outside?) Most unfortunately, the author is not free of (nonsensical, explanatorily useless) supernaturalism, and gratuitously refers to religion at almost every turn. Reality-and-reason-minded readers may want to skip over the myth-and-mysticism-laden passages. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe in the lab? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that within the next two decades, scientists may be able to perform this seemingly divine feat-- to concoct an entirely new baby universe, complete with its own physical laws, star systems, galaxies, and even intelligent life. To create your own cosmos, you would need a particle accelerator, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva or one of the proposed next-generation colliders, a lot of physics know-how, and a bit of luck. A Big Bang in a Little Room will take the reader on a journey through the history of cosmology and unravel-- particle-by-particle, theory-by-theory, and experiment-by-experiment-- the ideas behind this provocative claim made by some of the most-respected physicists alive today. Beyond simply explaining the science, A Big Bang in a Little Room will also tell the story of the people who have been plugging away for more than thirty years to make this seemingly impossible dream a reality, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it as humans. A Big Bang in a Little Room will examine their extravagant plans, which include current and future space missions, accelerator runs, and table-top lab experiments to search for evidence supporting their ideas In the process, the book will ask deep philosophical questions about what it means for us, as humans, to begin to contemplate creating a new universe. Remarkable in its originality and ambition, A Big Bang in a Little Room is the ideal read for anyone seeking to understand the making of our universe-- as well as the others just waiting to be created"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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