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  • Loop Quantum Gravity For Everyone

    by Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin ...
    'In this remarkably well-written text, the authors introduce readers gently to the conceptual bricks of LQG without using any mathematics (quite an achievement). The debate started with the discovery that the space-time geometry of general relativity can be written in terms of the electromagnetic field. This led to intersecting graphs called loops. Now known as spin networks, they are the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Sounds of the Cosmos

    Gravitational Waves and the Birth of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

    by Mario Diaz, Gabriela Gonzalez, Jorge Pullin ...
    The remarkable story of how humankind discovered gravitational waves, chronicled with unparalleled historical and scientific vision.In 2016, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations made headlines when they announced the detection of gravitational waves—a century after Albert Einstein first predicted their existence with his general theory of relativity. With unprecedented perspective as physicists at ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Atoms and Persons

    The Search for a Consistent View of the Physical and Humanistic Perspectives

    by Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin ...
    What is consciousness? Does free will exist?There exists a widespread conviction that the recent scientific discoveries, especially those related to physics and biology, in particular in contemporary neurosciences, question the traditional attempts to give meaning to life and a basis for our moral compass. Current scientific thinking usually identifies the mind with the mere exchange of electrical ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Loop Quantum Gravity: The First 30 Years

    by Abhay Ashtekar, Jorge Pullin ...
    Series Book 4 - 100 Years Of General Relativity
    'Written by young theoretical physicists who are experts in the field, this volume is meant both to provide an introduction to the field and to offer a review of the latest developments, not discussed in many other existing books, for senior researchers. It will also appeal to scientists who do not work directly on LQG but are interested in issues at the interface of general relativity and quantum ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    How Mind Emerged from Matter

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  • The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time

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    by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin ...
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  • Higgs Discovery

    The Power of Empty Space

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    On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through ... Read more

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    Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

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  • The Particle at the End of the Universe

    How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

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  • Information and the Nature of Reality

    From Physics to Metaphysics

    Edited by Paul Davies, Niels Henrik Gregersen ...
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    Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importance. Why? In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and digital information, in order to understand how nature works. Beginning with a historical treatment ... Read more

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