George Musser

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--And What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everyt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The award-winning journalist and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory presents a tour of modern physics that provocatively examines growing understandings about the near-fantastical impact of particles to affect each other across the vastness of space. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780374536619
• ISBN-10: 0374536619
• Artikelnr.: 44381310

Autorenporträt

George Musser

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Einstein's Castle in the Air
1. The Many Varieties of Nonlocality
2. The Origins of Nonlocality
3. Einstein's Locality
4. The Great Debate
5. Nonlocality and the Unification of Physics
6. Spacetime Is Doomed
Conclusion: The Amplituhedron
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index