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100 1 _aPenrose, Roger.
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245 1 4 _aThe road to reality :
_ba complete guide to the laws of the universe /
_cRoger Penrose.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bA.A. Knopf,
_c2005.
300 _axxviii, 1099 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2004.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 1050-1085) and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tThe roots of science --
_g2.
_tAn ancient theorem and a modern question --
_g3.
_tKinds of number in the physical world --
_g4.
_tMagical complex numbers --
_g5.
_tGeometry of logarithms, powers, and roots --
_g6.
_tReal-number calculus --
_g7.
_tComplex-number calculus --
_g8.
_tRiemann surfaces and complex mappings --
_g9.
_tFourier decomposition and hyperfunctions --
_g10.
_tSurfaces --
_g11.
_tHypercomplex numbers --
_g12.
_tManifolds of n dimensions --
_g13.
_tSymmetry groups --
_g14.
_tCalculus on manifolds --
_g15.
_tFibre bundles and gauge connections --
_g16.
_tThe ladder of infinity --
_g17.
_tSpacetime --
_g18.
_tMinkowskian geometry --
_g19.
_tThe classical fields of Maxwell and Einstein --
_g20.
_tLagrangians and Hamiltonians --
_g21.
_tThe quantum particle --
_g22.
_tQuantum algebra, geometry, and spin --
_g23.
_tThe entangled quantum world --
_g24.
_tDirac's electron and antiparticles --
_g25.
_tThe standard model of particle physics --
_g26.
_tQuantum field theory --
_g27.
_tThe Big Bang and its thermodynamic legacy --
_g28.
_tSpeculative theories of the early universe --
_g29.
_tThe measurement paradox --
_g30.
_tGravity's role in quantum state reduction --
_g31.
_tSupersymmetry, supra-dimensionality, and strings --
_g32.
_tEinstein's narrower path; loop variables --
_g33.
_tMore radical perspectives; twistor theory --
_g34.
_tWhere lies the road to reality?
520 1 _a"What Roger Penrose accomplishes in this book is threefold. First, he gives us an overall narrative description of our present understanding of the universe and its physical behaviors - from the unseeable, minuscule movement of the subatomic particle to the journeys of the planets and the stars in the vastness of time and space." "Second, he evokes the extraordinary beauty that lies in the mysterious and profound relationships between these physical behaviors and the subtle mathematical ideas that explain and interpret them." "Third, Penrose comes to the arresting conclusion - as he explores the compatibility of the two grand classic theories of modern physics - that Einstein's general theory of relativity stands firm while quantum theory, as presently constituted, still needs refashioning." "Along the way, he talks about a wealth of issues, controversies, and phenomena; about the roles of various kinds of numbers in physics, ideas of calculus and modern geometry, visions of infinity, the big bang, black holes, the profound challenge of the second law of thermodynamics, string and M theory, loop quantum gravity, twistors, and educated guesses about science in the near future."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 _aMathematical physics.
_913931
650 0 _aPhysical laws.
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900 _bTOC
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_cMONOGRAPH
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