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Amoroso, Richard L |
Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale |
I10908 |
2002 |
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Kafatos, Menas |
The Conscious Universe |
I10588 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Kafatos, Menas |
Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe |
I02972 |
1989 |
eBook |
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Kafatos, Menas |
Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations |
I01855 |
1996 |
eBook |
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Kafatos, Menas |
The Conscious Universe |
I01758 |
1990 |
eBook |
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Menas Kafatos |
Conscious universe: Part and whole in modern physical theory |
003638 |
1990 |
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| Title | Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale : Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier |
| Author(s) | Amoroso, Richard L;Hunter, G;Kafatos, Menas;Vigier, J.P |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2002. |
| Description | XVII, 540 p. 43 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l???eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400! He wrote of his mentor Louis de Broglie ???Great physicists fight great battles???, which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier himself . If fortune allows a visit to Paris, reported to be the city of love, and certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in the world; one has been treated to a visual and cultural feast. For example a leisurely stroll from the Musee du Louvre along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe would instill even the least creative soul with the entelechies of a poets muse. It is perhaps open to theoretical interpretation, but if causal conditions have allowed one to be a physicist, visiting Paris, one may have taken opportunity to visit the portion of the old Latin quarter in place Jussieu where Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, reported to be ???the best university in France???, is stationed |
| ISBN,Price | 9780306480522 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | The Conscious Universe : Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality |
| Author(s) | Kafatos, Menas;Nadeau, Robert |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2000. |
| Description | IX, 183 p. 8 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Imagine that two people have been chosen to be observers in a scien?? tific experiment involving two photons, or quanta of light. These pho?? tons originate from a single source and travel in opposite directions an equal distance halfway across the known universe to points where each will be measured or observed. Now suppose that before the pho?? tons are released, one observer is magically transported to a point of observation halfway across the known universe and the second ob?? server is magically transported to another point an equal distance in the opposite direction. ??The task of the observers is to record or meas?? ure a certain property of each photon with detectors located at the two points so that the data gathered at each can later be compared. Even though the photons are traveling from the source at the speed of light, each observer would have to wait billions of years for one of the photons to arrive at his observation point. Suppose, how?? ever, that the observers are willing to endure this wait because they hope to test the predictions of a mathematical theorem. This theorem not only allows for the prospect that there could be a correlation be?? tween the observed properties of the two photons but also indicates that this correlation could occur instantly, or in no time, in spite of the fact that the distance between the observers and their measuring instruments is billions of light years |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461213086 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. PHYSICS
5. Physics, general
6. QUANTUM COMPUTERS
7. Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
8. SPINTRONICS
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| Title | Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe |
| Author(s) | Kafatos, Menas |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | XII, 330 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Bell's Theorem and its associated implications for the nature of the physical world remain topics of great interest. For this reason many meetings have been recently held on the interpretation of quantum theory and the implications of Bell's Theorem. Generally these meetings have been held primarily for quantum physicists and philosophers of science who have been or are actively working on the topic. Nevertheless, other philosophers of science, mathematicians, engineers as well as members of the general public have increasingly taken interest in Bell's Theorem and its implications. The Fall Workshop held at George Mason University on October 21 and 22, 1988 and titled "Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory and Conceptions of the Universe" was of a more general scope. Not only it attracted experts in the field, it also covered other topics such as the implications of quantum non-locality for the nature of consciousness, cosmology, the anthropic principle, etc. topics usually not covered in previous meetings of this kind. The meeting was attended by more than one hundred ten specialists and other interested people from all over the world. The purpose of the meeting was not to provide a definitive answer to the general questions raised by Bell's Theorem. It is likely that the debate will go on for quite a long time. Rather, it was meant to contribute to the important dialogue between different disciplines |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401708494 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. Philosophy and science
6. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations |
| Author(s) | Kafatos, Menas;Kondo, Y |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1996. |
| Description | XI, 586 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | IAU Symposium No. 168, Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, took place on August 23-26, 1994 at the XXIInd IAU General Assembly in the Hague, Netherlands. The meeting attracted a large number - over 250 - of astronomers, reflecting the strong interest engendered by the great advances in cosmology made in recent years. There is still a multitude of unresolved problems in modern cosmology and the symposium offered a wonderful occasion to examine them objectively, at a place where many leading workers in related fields gathered together. After the introduction by IAU President L. Woltjer and the historical background by Vice Present Virginia Trimble, the volume begins with reviews of the cosmic microwave radiation from COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer). Reviews of recent observations then extend from radio to infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma-rays. It is followed by theoretical models for the Big Bang and Inflation, and alternative views to the Big Bang. Following a discourse on Probes and Future Tests, the meeting ended with a Panel Discussion on `Major Unsolved Problems of Cosmology'. Some forty-four contributed papers - both oral and poster reports - are included after the invited talks and panel discussions |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400901452 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
5. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. GRAVITATION
9. Observations, Astronomical
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| Title | The Conscious Universe : Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory |
| Author(s) | Kafatos, Menas;Nadeau, Robert |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 1990. |
| Description | VIII, 214 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This discussion resulted from a dialogue which began some seven years ago between a physicist who specializes in astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum theory, and a student of cultural history who had done post-doctoral work in the history and philosophy of science. Both of us at that time were awaiting the results of some experiments being conducted under the direction of the physicist Alain Aspect at the University of Paris-South. ! The experiments were the last in a series designed to test some predictions based on a mathematical 2 theorem published in 1964 by John Bell. There was no expectation that the results of these experiments would provide the basis for developing new technologies. The questions which the experiments were designed to answer concerned the relation?? ship between physical reality and physical theory in the branch of physics known as quantum mechanics. Like most questions raised by physicists which lead to startling new insights, they were disarmingly simple and direct. Is quantum physics, asked Bell, a self-consistent theory whose predictions would hold in a new class of experiments, or would the results reveal that the apparent challenges of quantum physics to the understanding in classical physics of the relationship between physical theory and physical reality were merely illusory? Answering this question in actual experiments could also, suggested Bell, lead to another, quite dramatic, result |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468403602 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. QUANTUM COMPUTERS
4. Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
5. QUANTUM PHYSICS
6. SPINTRONICS
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