Title Conversations about Physics. Volume 1

Published Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (294 p.) Series Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.11 Ideas Roadshow Collections Contents Intro -- Textual Note -- Preface -- Indiana Steinhardt -- And the Quest for Quasicrystals -- A conversation with Paul Steinhardt -- Introduction -- I. Introducing Quasicrystals -- II. Building Models -- III. Out of the Blue -- IV. Competing Explanations -- V. Looking to Nature -- VI. New Year's Delight -- VII. Confronting the Impossible -- VIII. Tracking Khatyrkite -- IX. Kamchatka -- X. Passing It On -- Continuing the Conversation -- Cryptoreality -- A conversation with Artur Ekert -- Introduction -- I. Beginnings -- II. Cryptographic Essentials -- III. Public Key Cryptosystems IV. Harnessing Interference -- V. Quantum Sociology -- VI. Quantum Metaphysics -- VII. The Joy of Questioning -- The Physics of Banjos -- A conversation with David Politzer -- Introduction -- I. The Feynman Experience -- II. Love at First Sound -- III. The Holy Grail -- IV. The Ocarina Effect -- V. Hearing Pitch -- VI. Relative Strengths -- VII. Transient Growth -- VIII. The Working Physicist -- IX. The Journey Continues -- The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered -- A conversation with Tony Leggett -- Introduction -- I. Back to the Future -- II. The Very Small -- III. The Very Large IV. A Glassy Digression -- V. The Very Complex -- VI. Understanding -- VII. Different Regimes -- VIII. Schrödinger's Cat -- IX. The Slings and Arrows of Time -- X. The Anthropic Principle -- XI. The Future of Physics -- Continuing the Conversation -- The Power of Principles -- Physics Revealed -- A conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed -- Introduction -- I. Physics Time Management -- II. The Problem with Popularization -- III. In Feynman's Footsteps -- IV. Describing Reality -- V. A Timeless Community -- VI. Against Relativism -- VII. Strongly Constrained -- VIII. In Search of a Formula IX. A Principled Example -- X. Supersymmetry -- XI. Reacting Precipitously -- XII. Tangled Pillars -- XIII. The Pull of the Truth -- XIV. Choosing a Better Description -- XV. Beyond Space-Time Summary Conversations About Physics, Volume 1, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. Nima Arkani-Hamed, faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton;2. Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the Uni Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Physics -- Miscellanea Science -- Methodology. Cryptography. Banjo -- Acoustics Quasicrystals. Cryptography Physics Quasicrystals Science -- Methodology Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea Form Electronic book ISBN 9781771701488 177170148X 1771701919 9781771701914

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