Author: Keith Whittingslow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469743615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The Fine Structure Constant
Author: Keith Whittingslow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469743615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469743615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Jacob Bekenstein: The Conservative Revolutionary
Author: Lars Brink
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811203970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Jacob Bekenstein, an Israeli physicist of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, planted the seeds of a revolution of our understanding of space-time. Using conservative intuitive methods including time-old gedanken experiments, he discovered that black holes have thermodynamical properties such as entropy.Moreover, he found that their entropy was not extensive, unlike that of any other thermodynamical system considered before, but rather is proportional to the surface of their horizon. Furthermore, Bekenstein pioneered the study of black holes by focusing on their information content aspects. This led him to obtain bounds of a holographic nature on the amount of information that can be stored in a given region of space-time.This book contains a series of scientific and personal contributions by his contemporaries who recall the struggle against his ideas and then with them: the fate accompanying many revolutionary ideas. This is followed by original scientific contributions by many of the leaders of current research on black hole physics and holography. They have trodden his path and expanded it. The impact of Jacob Bekenstein's visionary ideas is just starting to be understood.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811203970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Jacob Bekenstein, an Israeli physicist of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, planted the seeds of a revolution of our understanding of space-time. Using conservative intuitive methods including time-old gedanken experiments, he discovered that black holes have thermodynamical properties such as entropy.Moreover, he found that their entropy was not extensive, unlike that of any other thermodynamical system considered before, but rather is proportional to the surface of their horizon. Furthermore, Bekenstein pioneered the study of black holes by focusing on their information content aspects. This led him to obtain bounds of a holographic nature on the amount of information that can be stored in a given region of space-time.This book contains a series of scientific and personal contributions by his contemporaries who recall the struggle against his ideas and then with them: the fate accompanying many revolutionary ideas. This is followed by original scientific contributions by many of the leaders of current research on black hole physics and holography. They have trodden his path and expanded it. The impact of Jacob Bekenstein's visionary ideas is just starting to be understood.
100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand
Author: E. B. Manoukian
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030510816
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This book aims to integrate, in a pedagogical and technical manner, with detailed derivations, all essential principles of fundamental theoretical physics as developed over the past 100 years. It covers: Quantum physics and Stability Problems in the Quantum World, Minkowski Spacetime Physics Particle Classifications and Underlying Symmetries, Symmetry Violations, Quantum Field Theory of Particle Interactions, Higgs Field Physics, Supersymmetry: A Theory with Mathematical Beauty Superstrings, Gravity and Supergravity, General Relativity Predictions, including Frame Dragging, Intricacies of Black Hole Physics, Perturbative and Non-perturbative Quantum Gravity Intricacies of Modern Cosmology, including Inflation and Power Spectrum If you are in the process of learning, or are lecturing on, any of the subjects above, then this is your book - irrespective of your specialty. With over-specialization and no time to master all the fields given above, students, and perhaps many physicists, may find it difficult to keep up with all the exciting developments going on, and are even less familiar with their underlying technicalities: e.g. they might have heard that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, but have no idea on how this number is actually computed. This unique book will be of great value to graduate students, instructors and researchers interested in the intricacies and derivations of the many aspects of modern fundamental theoretical physics. And, although a graduate level book, some chapters may also be suitable for advanced undergraduates in their final year.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030510816
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This book aims to integrate, in a pedagogical and technical manner, with detailed derivations, all essential principles of fundamental theoretical physics as developed over the past 100 years. It covers: Quantum physics and Stability Problems in the Quantum World, Minkowski Spacetime Physics Particle Classifications and Underlying Symmetries, Symmetry Violations, Quantum Field Theory of Particle Interactions, Higgs Field Physics, Supersymmetry: A Theory with Mathematical Beauty Superstrings, Gravity and Supergravity, General Relativity Predictions, including Frame Dragging, Intricacies of Black Hole Physics, Perturbative and Non-perturbative Quantum Gravity Intricacies of Modern Cosmology, including Inflation and Power Spectrum If you are in the process of learning, or are lecturing on, any of the subjects above, then this is your book - irrespective of your specialty. With over-specialization and no time to master all the fields given above, students, and perhaps many physicists, may find it difficult to keep up with all the exciting developments going on, and are even less familiar with their underlying technicalities: e.g. they might have heard that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, but have no idea on how this number is actually computed. This unique book will be of great value to graduate students, instructors and researchers interested in the intricacies and derivations of the many aspects of modern fundamental theoretical physics. And, although a graduate level book, some chapters may also be suitable for advanced undergraduates in their final year.
The Constants of Nature
Author: John Barrow
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these governing principles. Drawing on physicists such as Einstein and Planck, Barrow illustrates with stunning clarity our dependence on the steadfastness of these principles. But he also suggests that the basic forces may have been radically different during the universe’s infancy, and suggests that they may continue a deeply hidden evolution. Perhaps most tantalizingly, Barrow theorizes about the realities that might one day be found in a universe with different parameters than our own.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555356
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these governing principles. Drawing on physicists such as Einstein and Planck, Barrow illustrates with stunning clarity our dependence on the steadfastness of these principles. But he also suggests that the basic forces may have been radically different during the universe’s infancy, and suggests that they may continue a deeply hidden evolution. Perhaps most tantalizingly, Barrow theorizes about the realities that might one day be found in a universe with different parameters than our own.
Astrophysics, Clocks and Fundamental Constants
Author: Savely G Karshenboim
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783662144596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783662144596
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom
Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191630462
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called his 'unique instinct and tact'. Contrary to most other accounts of the Bohr atom, the book presents it in a broader perspective which includes the reception among other scientists and the criticism launched against it by scientists of a more conservative inclination. Moreover, it discusses the theory as Bohr originally conceived it, namely, as an ambitious theory covering the structure of atoms as well as molecules. By discussing the theory in its entirety it becomes possible to understand why it developed as it did and thereby to use it as an example of the dynamics of scientific theories.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191630462
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it. At the same time it offers new insight into Bohr's peculiar way of thinking, what Einstein once called his 'unique instinct and tact'. Contrary to most other accounts of the Bohr atom, the book presents it in a broader perspective which includes the reception among other scientists and the criticism launched against it by scientists of a more conservative inclination. Moreover, it discusses the theory as Bohr originally conceived it, namely, as an ambitious theory covering the structure of atoms as well as molecules. By discussing the theory in its entirety it becomes possible to understand why it developed as it did and thereby to use it as an example of the dynamics of scientific theories.
The Fine Structure Constant
Author: Keith Whittingslow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595098312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The author explores the world of communication in his poetry. By way of experimental verse he seeks to open possible new channels of meaning and understanding. His experimentation with new word forms can assist in the transformation of conventional thought into new dimensions of consciousness. "Keith Whittingslow's words dance like penetrating Light mirrors in this rare collection of enchanting, entertaining, and enlightening prose-poetry. This work is a must for all readers interested in the pursuit of cognition."—Sharon Franquemont, author of You Already Know What To Do and Intuition: Your Electric Self "Keith's poems conjure a vast ocean in which soul and science ripple together. Dive into these delightful waves and swim in the vastness."—Dan Clurman, author of Floating Upstream "In this collection, you can just taste the appetite Keith Whittingslow has for language and ideas. Similar to the late Bucky Fuller's book Intuition, the Apollonian, erudite, rationative precision and clarity of the natural philosopher is here, but that can only get one so far, and Whittingslow wants to do more. So he heroically allows himself to self-deconstruct into a Dionysian creative reprocessing of what he's been used to reading and writing about in a more rule-bound manner. As a result, we can now experience the combinatory play and wedding festivities of a fine intellect pushing its own envelope, with linguistic and ideational adventurous juxtapositions that reflect chance-taking experimentation taking the reader to the edge of what a disciplined human language-wielding mind such as his pines to do, dancing out of its usual constraints to reach for new ways of capturing truth for itself and conveying in turn. Whittingslow does a great job of breaking up the usual prosaic language/mind flow with all the still-clear cut pieces in it now reforming kaleidoscopically, like fellow poet Shelley's 'many colored dome of glass' through which we feel the light of the emerging poet trying to break free from the bonds of its own intellectualizing, dispassionate tendencies to sing the deeper wonder."—Jon Klimo, author of Channeling
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595098312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The author explores the world of communication in his poetry. By way of experimental verse he seeks to open possible new channels of meaning and understanding. His experimentation with new word forms can assist in the transformation of conventional thought into new dimensions of consciousness. "Keith Whittingslow's words dance like penetrating Light mirrors in this rare collection of enchanting, entertaining, and enlightening prose-poetry. This work is a must for all readers interested in the pursuit of cognition."—Sharon Franquemont, author of You Already Know What To Do and Intuition: Your Electric Self "Keith's poems conjure a vast ocean in which soul and science ripple together. Dive into these delightful waves and swim in the vastness."—Dan Clurman, author of Floating Upstream "In this collection, you can just taste the appetite Keith Whittingslow has for language and ideas. Similar to the late Bucky Fuller's book Intuition, the Apollonian, erudite, rationative precision and clarity of the natural philosopher is here, but that can only get one so far, and Whittingslow wants to do more. So he heroically allows himself to self-deconstruct into a Dionysian creative reprocessing of what he's been used to reading and writing about in a more rule-bound manner. As a result, we can now experience the combinatory play and wedding festivities of a fine intellect pushing its own envelope, with linguistic and ideational adventurous juxtapositions that reflect chance-taking experimentation taking the reader to the edge of what a disciplined human language-wielding mind such as his pines to do, dancing out of its usual constraints to reach for new ways of capturing truth for itself and conveying in turn. Whittingslow does a great job of breaking up the usual prosaic language/mind flow with all the still-clear cut pieces in it now reforming kaleidoscopically, like fellow poet Shelley's 'many colored dome of glass' through which we feel the light of the emerging poet trying to break free from the bonds of its own intellectualizing, dispassionate tendencies to sing the deeper wonder."—Jon Klimo, author of Channeling
The Power of [alpha]
Author: Malcolm Herbert MacGregor
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812569618
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book is centered on the most pressing unsolved problem in elementary particle physics ? the mass generation of particles. It contains physics that is not included in the Standard Model as it is now formulated, while at the same time being in conformity with the major results of the Standard Model, i.e. isotopic spins and interactions. It differs from the Standard Model in the treatment of masses and pseudoscalar mesons, and in the role assigned to the coupling constant à. Presented in a careful and phenomenological way, the material can easily be followed by all physicists, both experimental and theoretical, and also by interested workers in other fields. The author's website ? 70mev.org ? gives additional information about the applications of the constant à in particle physics.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812569618
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book is centered on the most pressing unsolved problem in elementary particle physics ? the mass generation of particles. It contains physics that is not included in the Standard Model as it is now formulated, while at the same time being in conformity with the major results of the Standard Model, i.e. isotopic spins and interactions. It differs from the Standard Model in the treatment of masses and pseudoscalar mesons, and in the role assigned to the coupling constant à. Presented in a careful and phenomenological way, the material can easily be followed by all physicists, both experimental and theoretical, and also by interested workers in other fields. The author's website ? 70mev.org ? gives additional information about the applications of the constant à in particle physics.
Lepton Dipole Moments
Author: B. Lee Roberts
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814271845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This book provides a self-contained description of the measurements of the magnetic dipole moments of the electron and muon, along with a discussion of the measurements of the fine structure constant, and the theory associated with magnetic and electric dipole moments. Also included are the searches for a permanent electric dipole moment of the electron, muon, neutron and atomic nuclei. The related topic of the transition moment for lepton flavor violating processes, such as neutrinoless muon or tauon decays, and the search for such processes are included as well. The papers, written by many of the leading authors in this field, cover both the experimental and theoretical aspects of these topics. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Historical Introduction to Electric and Mangnetic Moments (367 KB). Contents: Historical Introduction (B L Roberts); Electromagnetic Dipole Moments and New Physics (A Czarnecki & W J Marciano); Lepton g OCo 2 from 1947 to Present (T Kinoshita); Analytic QED Calculations of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron (S Laporta & E Remiddi); Measurements of the Electron Magnetic Moment (G Gabrielse); Determining the Fine Structure Constant (G Gabrielse); Helium Fine Structure Theory for the Determination of (K Pachucki & J Sapirstein); Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and the Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moments (M Davier); The Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to a, e (J Prades et al.); General Prescriptions for One-loop Contributions to a e, (K R Lynch); Measurement of the Muon ( g OCo 2) Value (J P Miller et al.); Muon ( g OCo 2) and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (D StAckinger); Probing CP Violation with Electric Dipole Moments (M Pospelov & A Ritz); The Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron (E D Commins & D DeMille); Neutron EDM Experiments (S K Lamoreaux & R Golub); Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments (W C Griffith et al.); EDM Measurements in Storage Rings (B L Roberts et al.); Models of Lepton Flavor Violation (Y Okada); Search for the Charged Lepton-Flavor-Violating Transition Moments l OaAE l OC (Y Kuno). Readership: Researchers and graduate students in particle physics, atomic physics and nuclear physics, as well as experts working in the field
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814271845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This book provides a self-contained description of the measurements of the magnetic dipole moments of the electron and muon, along with a discussion of the measurements of the fine structure constant, and the theory associated with magnetic and electric dipole moments. Also included are the searches for a permanent electric dipole moment of the electron, muon, neutron and atomic nuclei. The related topic of the transition moment for lepton flavor violating processes, such as neutrinoless muon or tauon decays, and the search for such processes are included as well. The papers, written by many of the leading authors in this field, cover both the experimental and theoretical aspects of these topics. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Historical Introduction to Electric and Mangnetic Moments (367 KB). Contents: Historical Introduction (B L Roberts); Electromagnetic Dipole Moments and New Physics (A Czarnecki & W J Marciano); Lepton g OCo 2 from 1947 to Present (T Kinoshita); Analytic QED Calculations of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron (S Laporta & E Remiddi); Measurements of the Electron Magnetic Moment (G Gabrielse); Determining the Fine Structure Constant (G Gabrielse); Helium Fine Structure Theory for the Determination of (K Pachucki & J Sapirstein); Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and the Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moments (M Davier); The Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to a, e (J Prades et al.); General Prescriptions for One-loop Contributions to a e, (K R Lynch); Measurement of the Muon ( g OCo 2) Value (J P Miller et al.); Muon ( g OCo 2) and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (D StAckinger); Probing CP Violation with Electric Dipole Moments (M Pospelov & A Ritz); The Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron (E D Commins & D DeMille); Neutron EDM Experiments (S K Lamoreaux & R Golub); Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments (W C Griffith et al.); EDM Measurements in Storage Rings (B L Roberts et al.); Models of Lepton Flavor Violation (Y Okada); Search for the Charged Lepton-Flavor-Violating Transition Moments l OaAE l OC (Y Kuno). Readership: Researchers and graduate students in particle physics, atomic physics and nuclear physics, as well as experts working in the field
Combinatorial Physics
Author: Louis H Kauffman
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814500623
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The authors aim to reinstate a spirit of philosophical enquiry in physics. They abandon the intuitive continuum concepts and build up constructively a combinatorial mathematics of process. This radical change alone makes it possible to calculate the coupling constants of the fundamental fields which — via high energy scattering — are the bridge from the combinatorial world into dynamics. The untenable distinction between what is ‘observed’, or measured, and what is not, upon which current quantum theory is based, is not needed. If we are to speak of mind, this has to be present — albeit in primitive form — at the most basic level, and not to be dragged in at one arbitrary point to avoid the difficulties about quantum observation. There is a growing literature on information-theoretic models for physics, but hitherto the two disciplines have gone in parallel. In this book they interact vitally.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814500623
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The authors aim to reinstate a spirit of philosophical enquiry in physics. They abandon the intuitive continuum concepts and build up constructively a combinatorial mathematics of process. This radical change alone makes it possible to calculate the coupling constants of the fundamental fields which — via high energy scattering — are the bridge from the combinatorial world into dynamics. The untenable distinction between what is ‘observed’, or measured, and what is not, upon which current quantum theory is based, is not needed. If we are to speak of mind, this has to be present — albeit in primitive form — at the most basic level, and not to be dragged in at one arbitrary point to avoid the difficulties about quantum observation. There is a growing literature on information-theoretic models for physics, but hitherto the two disciplines have gone in parallel. In this book they interact vitally.