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9780521882392

Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness

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    9780521882392

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    0521882397

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

World-leading researchers, including Nobel Laureates and rising young stars, examine some of the most important and fundamental questions at the forefronts of modern science, philosophy, and theology, taking into account recent discoveries from a range of fields. This fascinating book is ideal for anyone seeking answers to deep questions about the universe and human life. The remarkable career of Charles H. Townes, inventor of the maser and laser for which he shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, has spanned seven decades. His interests have ranged from the origin of the Universe to the structure of molecules, always focusing on the nature of human life. Honouring his work, this book explores the most basic questions of science, philosophy, and the nature of existence: How did the Universe begin? Why do the fundamental constants of nature have the values they do? What is human consciousness, and do we have free will?

Table of Contents

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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