| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Director's welcoming address / M.J. Duff -- Astrophysical neutrinos: 20th century and beyond / J.N. Bahcall -- The case for discrete energy levels of a black hole / J.D. Bekenstein -- A century of gravity: 1901-2000 (plus some 2001) / S. Deser -- Spontaneous CP violation: alternative to the standard model / P.H. Frampton -- The measure of cosmological parameters / W.L. Freedman -- Progress in weakly coupled string phenomenology / M.K. Gaillard -- Spacetime quantum mechanics / J.B. Hartle -- My life as a boson: the story of "the Higgs" / P. Higgs -- Inflation and string cosmology / A. Linde -- Spacetime and vacuum as seen from Moscow / L.B. Okun -- Gauge fields and space-time / A.M. Polyakov -- The symmetry, or lack of it, between matter and antimatter / H.R. Quinn -- Anomaly cancellation: a retrospective from a modern perspective / J.H. Schwarz -- The dark side of the universe / J. Silk -- Making sense of the new cosmology / M.S. Turner -- Geometry and spacetime / S.-T. Yau -- Nonabelian gauge theories on noncommutative spaces / D. Brace, B.L. Cerchiai and B. Zumino |
| Summary |
Two theories revolutionized the 20th century view of space and time: Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Their union has given rise to elementary particle theories with extra spacetime dimensions, the inflationary model of big bang cosmology, the hypothesis of dark matter in the universe, the discovery of radiation from quantum black holes, and the fuzzy spacetime geometry of superstrings and M-theory. In this important book, experts present the latest developments in cosmology, theoretical physics and mathematics, as well as share their thoughts on the future of spacetime physics |
| Notes |
Conference held at the University of Michigan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Physics -- Congresses.
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Astronomy -- Congresses
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Space and time -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Astronomy
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Physics
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Space and time
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duff, M. J.
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Liu, James T.
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| ISBN |
9789812778185 |
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9812778187 |
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9789810248062 |
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9810248067 |
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9789812382313 |
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9812382313 |
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