Questioning the Foundations of Physics : which of our fundamental assumptions are wrong? /

The essays in this book look at way in which the fundaments of physics might need to be changed in order to make progress towards a unified theory. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition "Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?", which...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Aguirre, Anthony (Anthony Nicholas) (المحرر), Foster, Brendan (Brendan Zdon) (المحرر), Merali, Zeeya (المحرر)
الشكل: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cham [Switzerland] ; Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2015].
السلاسل:Frontiers collection.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction / A. Aguirre, B. Foster, Z. Merali
  • The paradigm of kinematics and dynamics must yield to causal structure / R. Spekkens
  • Recognising top-down causation / G. Ellis
  • On the foundational assumptions of modern physics / B. Dribus
  • The preferred system of reference reloaded / I. Perez
  • Right about time? / S. Gryb, F. Mercati
  • A critical look at the standard cosmological picture / D. Janzen
  • Not on but of / O. Dreyer
  • Patterns in the fabric of nature / S. Weinstein
  • Is quantum linear superposition an exact principle of nature? / A. Bassi, T. Singh, H. Ulbricht
  • Quantum-informational principles for physics / G. D'Ariano
  • The universe is not a computer / K. Wharton
  • Against spacetime / G. Amelino-Camelia
  • A chicken-and-egg problem: Which came first, the quantum state or spacetime? / T. Asselmeyer-Maluga
  • Gravity can be neither classical nor quantized / S. Hossenfelder
  • Weaving commutators: beyond Fock space / M. Arzano
  • Reductionist doubts / J. Barbour
  • Rethinking the scientific enterprise: in defense of reductionism / I. Durham
  • Is life fundamental? / S. Walker.