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| List of contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Editors' preface | |
| Preface | |
| Laureates' preface: reflections from four physics | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Illumination: The History and Future of Physical Science and Technology | |
| A short history of light in the Western world | |
| Tools and innovation | |
| The future of science | |
| The end of everything: will AI replace humans? Will everything die when the universe freezes over? | |
| Fundamental Physics and Quantum Mechanics | |
| Fundamental constants | |
| New insights on time symmetry in quantum mechanics | |
| The major unknowns in particle physics and cosmology | |
| The major unknown in quantum mechanics: Is it the whole truth? | |
| Precision cosmology and the landscape | |
| Hairy black holes, phase transitions, and AdS/CFT | |
| Astrophysics and Astronomy | |
| The microwave background: a cosmic time machine | |
| Dark matter and dark energy | |
| New directions and intersections for observational cosmology: the case of dark energy | |
| Inward bound: high-resolution astronomy and the quest for black holes and extrasolar planets | |
| Searching for signatures of life beyond the solar system: astrophysical interferometry and the 150 km Exo-Earth Imager | |
| New directions for gravitational wave physics via 'Millikan oil drops' | |
| An 'ultrasonic' image of the embryonic universe: CMB polarization tests of the inflationary paradigm | |
| New Approaches in Technology and Science | |
| Visualizing complexity: development of 4D microscopy and diffraction for imaging in space and time | |
| Is life based on laws of physics? | |
| Quantum information | |
| Emergence in condensed matter physics | |
| Achieving the highest spectral resolution over the widest spectral bandwidth: precision measurement meets ultrafast science | |
| Wireless non-radiative energy transfer | |
| Consciousness and Free Will | |
| The big picture: exploring questions on the boundaries of science - consciousness and free will | |
| Quantum entanglement: from fundamental questions to quantum communication and quantum computation and back | |
| Consciousness, body, and brain: the matter of the mind Gerald | |
| The relation between quantum mechanics and higher brain functions: lessons from quantum computation and neurobiology | |
| Free will and the causal closure of physics | |
| Natural laws and the closure of physics | |
| Anti-Cartesianism and downward causation: reshaping the free-will debate | |
| Can we understand free will? | |
| Reflections on the Big Questions: Mind, Matter. Mathematics, and Ultimate Reality | |
| The big picture: exploring questions on the boundaries of science - mind, matter, mathematics | |
| The mathematical universe | |
| Where do the laws of physics come from? Paul | |
| Science, energy, ethics, and civilization | |
| Life of science, life of faith | |
| The science of light and the light of science: an appreciative theological reflection on the life and work of Charles Hard Townes | |
| Two quibbles about 'ultimate' | |
| Index | |
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