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Existential Physics
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Author : Sabine Hossenfelder
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-08-09
Existential Physics written by Sabine Hossenfelder and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-09 with Science categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal “Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science Magazine From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely. According to Sabine Hossenfelder, it is not a coincidence that quantum entanglement and vacuum energy have become the go-to explanations of alternative healers, or that people believe their deceased grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Science and religion have the same roots, and they still tackle some of the same questions: Where do we come from? Where do we go to? How much can we know? The area of science that is closest to answering these questions is physics. Over the last century, physicists have learned a lot about which spiritual ideas are still compatible with the laws of nature. Not always, though, have they stayed on the scientific side of the debate. In this lively, thought-provoking book, Hossenfelder takes on the biggest questions in physics: Does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe made for us? Has physics ruled out free will? Will we ever have a theory of everything? She lays out how far physicists are on the way to answering these questions, where the current limits are, and what questions might well remain unanswerable forever. Her book offers a no-nonsense yet entertaining take on some of the toughest riddles in existence, and will give the reader a solid grasp on what we know—and what we don’t know.
Lost In Math
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Author : Sabine Hossenfelder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Lost In Math written by Sabine Hossenfelder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Science categories.
In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.
An Abridged Discussion Of An Existential Propulsion System
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Author : Luther L. Nayhm
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-29
An Abridged Discussion Of An Existential Propulsion System written by Luther L. Nayhm and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with categories.
This book is an abridged version of the third in a series of four books, and in this third book we discuss Newton's third law of action and reaction and its application in enabling a new and novel propulsion concept. Forms of the generic propulsion presented in this book have been suggested before, but all suggested implementations have turned out to be useless. A patent search over antigravity and reactionless propulsion will indicate the extent of the hopefulness of technologists for nearly a century. Furthermore, the underlying physics to these failed inventions was often not known or even described. However, the discovery of a vast number of heuristic in our fundamental physics, which was the outcome of the research for the first book in the series, Newton's Gravity and the Hidden Heuristic, stimulated a deeper review of Newton's three laws of motion to identify if, perhaps, one of those famous laws was also a heuristic. Heuristics are simplifications, generalizations, or rules of thumb that seem to be good enough for all practical purposes, but the issue emerged as to whether they are as good as we think. Because of the findings published in the first book, my curiosity and skepticism motivated me to look at whether our linear interpretations might show that perhaps one or more of the three laws of dynamics might be a heuristic. This book continues the discussions introduced in the first two books. Some of our most basic ideas in physics were challenged in the earlier books, and these physics were subsequently discovered to be heuristics if not completely wrong. For instance, Newton's point-mass gravitational law was applied to a distribution of mass without using the center-of-mass and point-mass assumptions and the resulting mutual attractions between objects was shown to deviate, sometimes significantly, from the simple point-mass model. Using this same level of skepticism in researching this book, I identified undiscovered principles and technologies that are straight forward extensions of known functional physics and known functional technologies. The novel propulsion technology that emerged fuses well-known physics and technologies in a way that enables the description of a propulsion technology that is classical yet breaks all the "rules" and lays the groundwork for a possibly complete transformation of modern societies. I became focused on the combination of centrifugal and Coriolis forces, because the centrifugal force as a fictitious force can be used to linearly accelerate mass seemingly without direct recoil. In certain spinning devices, such as centrifugal pumps, the Coriolis and centrifugal forces are orthogonal but of unequal magnitude. By being orthogonal and unequal in magnitude, I have an asymmetry in the system acceleration forces and recoil forces. But, to use these integrated recoil forces, I needed to invent a new pumping or mass-driver configuration that broke the symmetry that Newton's third law requires, which is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It turns out that from a system's perspective, there is a loop hole in this law, because in a rotating system, the two forces are both unequal and non-linear. The widely-held belief is that propulsion can only occur if mass is ejected from a system, because this is the only way to conserve momentum in a moving or accelerating system. The center of mass of the total system...vehicle plus exhaust...stays constant, with the expelled mass moving one way and the vehicle moving the other way, but I set out to test the belief that linear momentum must be conserved in producing propulsion. Subsequently, I invented a non-linear propulsion system that shows that Newton's 3rd law can be broken at the systems level.
Existential Psychophysics
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Author : Ernest Solivan
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-03-21
Existential Psychophysics written by Ernest Solivan and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Education categories.
With the advent of quantum physics, science must now recognize that there is something happening below our level of conscious awareness that dictates the types of experiences we create. Existential Psychophysics is a book that discusses an extraordinary transformation technology that explains how to create positive change in your life and program your mind for success using Hemispheric Kinesiology.
Reality And Empathy
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Author : Alex Comfort
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1984-06-30
Reality And Empathy written by Alex Comfort and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
Once in a century an overview shakes the mold of preconception and makes a world model fall into shape. This is such a book—absorbing, provocative, original, skeptical, and often very funny in spite of formidable scholarship. The focus of the book is on the change in self-perception which physics might bring about if it were made in some way empathically real to non-physicists. The common man's "existential" attitude is a product now of nineteenth-century, mechanistic models. But in pursuing this, the author lays out a comprehensive survey of impending changes in the philosophy of science, and ranges through physics, biology, mathematics, Jungian psychology, and evolutionary theory, turning also to look at other, non-Western-scientific, world models. "In the task of reshaping the world model of scientists and others, only commitment to the discipline of science will do. It can be combined with enough controlled lunacy to bring conventionally self-evident ideas of reality into question (in mathematics this has always been a winning mixture), but it has to produce testable predictions." "What we are now looking at is the prospect of 'Jungian physics': a physics model which also addresses the image-forming mechanism and possibly even the non-locality of mind." "The hard-hat model of an objective reality has had to yield to a growing perception that the objective is, in form at least, a construct: what we appear to see is a function of the manner of seeing (hardly a new idea to Greek philosophy), but with the awkward complication that the cogitating I arises from the structures which it sees and orders."
Quantum Shorts
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Author : Michael Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Pagesetters Services
Release Date : 2019
Quantum Shorts written by Michael Brooks and has been published by Pagesetters Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Science categories.
This book presents winning and shortlisted stories from past editions of the international Quantum Shorts competition. Inspired by the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics, the shorts range from bold imaginings of a quantum future to contemplations rooted in the everyday. They feature characters of all sorts: lovers beginning their lives together, an atom having an existential crisis, and, of course, cats. These Quantum Shorts will unleash in your mind a multiverse of ideas.
Why Does The World Exist
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Author : Jim Holt
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Why Does The World Exist written by Jim Holt and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Philosophy categories.
The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, “testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other” (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang. This “deft and consuming” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts.
God And The New Physics
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Author : Paul Davies
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-09-28
God And The New Physics written by Paul Davies and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-28 with Religion categories.
An explanation of how recent discoveries of the new physics are revolutionizing our view of the world and, in particular, throwing light on many of the questions formerly posed by religion
The Theory Of One
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Author : Christopher Bek
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2015-11-27
The Theory Of One written by Christopher Bek and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-27 with Science categories.
Christopher Bek has produced a revolutionary physics theory and claims that this theory of one (2001) solves the greatest scientific problem of all time by uniting relativity theory (1905) with quantum theory (1925). According to Bek, it proves that the universe is bounded at light speed and Planck's constant, that there is only one photon (i.e. a being of light), that one photon is God, and that reality is an illusion--meaning the moon does not exist when no one is looking at it. He says that physicists are ignoring the theory because it effectively pulls-their-pants-down. The theory is dead simple and can be explained in just a few minutes. The theory of one brings the reader face to face with the stunning realization that the universe is bounded-rather than unbounded, as Einstein and others have asserted. The theory of one delivers the ocean. It is the theory that spells the end of physics. It is the monolith of 2001-a spacetime odyssey.
Physical Science And Physical Reality
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Author : Louis Osgood Kattsoff
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Physical Science And Physical Reality written by Louis Osgood Kattsoff and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Science categories.