Everything Is Now: Revolutionary Ideas from String Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367490232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 70 str.

William Spence

Opis

Everything is Now: Revolutionary Ideas from String Theory is a short, approachable introduction to string theory. In twelve digestible chapters, devoid of equations and jargon, Bill Spence seeks to answer the question “why does this rarefied field continue to dominate the landscape of theoretical physics?”.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 
2. Everything is Now - then 
3. It’s right behind you 
4. My donut has no hole 
5. Brane waves, or we’re just blowing bubbles 
6. You are a screen idol 
7. Let’s twistor again 
8. The square root of gravity 
9. It’s only Platonic 
10. Everything is Now - now 
11. Accentuate the positive 
12. The future  
13. String theory and reality 
14. References and further resources

O autorze

Bill Spence is Professor of Theoretical Physics and founder of the Centre for Research in String Theory at Queen Mary University of London.