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08-29-2011, 08:32 PM
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So Prof Brian Greene has a new book out. The first: The Elegant Universe, the 2nd: The Fabric of the Cosmos and now--ta-da---The Hidden Reality!
This one seems to presume you've digested the first two (wonderful books) or have some background physics at least to follow some of this latest stuff and it is a HUM-DINGER of a book. He brings out all the very latest on entropy (including Black Holes), quantum probability advances, some fascinating things currently advanced about the cosmological constant, some (to me) surprising things that have come out of (of all things) the old double-slit interference experiments (wave function of particles) and how all this boils down into about 11 different multiverse theories and where they stand. There is some very subtle logic and there is some real head-scratching "huh?'s" involved. All in all, another fascinating read by this dude. I swear he can put the most arcane processes into graspable wording. Amazing. Well worth the price.
And Lisa Randall has another book out-----since she is standard model based (although not 100%) I can't wait to see what is happening with her work. I'm guessing its Higgs Field stuff and LHC based. We'll see once I find a copy.
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08-29-2011, 09:35 PM
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08-30-2011, 06:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | As a person with a non-science major or career, I really enjoyed The Elegant Universe (even though it took me a couple of tries to get through) and I am currently reading (and enjoying) The Fabric of the Cosmos. Glad you enjoyed the new book, I will have to check that out next.
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08-30-2011, 07:14 AM
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08-30-2011, 07:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Cool. I likes a good physics book. I'm currently reading "information and the Nature of Reality", edited by Paul Davies. It's very, very good. |
08-30-2011, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Sketchy Have you ever read any Feynman? He was a brilliant writer, but be prepared to find QED totally mindscrewing. | I can't wait to read him-have not yet-but have read OF his work for the Manhattan project, etc. Gotta go see whats out there.
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08-30-2011, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by -Kramer- As a person with a non-science major or career, I really enjoyed The Elegant Universe (even though it took me a couple of tries to get through) and I am currently reading (and enjoying) The Fabric of the Cosmos. Glad you enjoyed the new book, I will have to check that out next. | Go get Lisa Randall's WARPED PASSAGES. A great primer on particle physics.
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08-30-2011, 09:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bristol, UK | | | If you like Feynman's physics stuff, I'd also advise reading his memoirs. They're fascinating and also very amusing.
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08-30-2011, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Sketchy If you like Feynman's physics stuff, I'd also advise reading his memoirs. They're fascinating and also very amusing. | will do!
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08-30-2011, 01:19 PM
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08-30-2011, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reynoldsburg Ohio | | | Dr. Greene pointed out in one of his books that the idiosyncratic Dr Edward Witten once called his colleagues "Spherical Bastards", meaning they are bastards from any angle you look at them.
I like Witten!
Had me laughing!
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