[PDF] Symmetry And The Beautiful Universe eBook

Author : Leon M. Lederman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 1615920412

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When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws of nature and hence controls the universe. This all-important insight is one of the great conceptual breakthroughs in modern physics and is the basis of contemporary efforts to discover a grand unified theory to explain all the laws of physics. Nobel Laureate Leon M. Lederman and physicist Christopher T. Hill explain the supremely elegant concept of symmetry and all its profound ramifications to life on Earth and the universe at large in this eloquent, accessible popular science book. They not only clearly describe concepts normally reserved only for physicists and mathematicians, but they also instill an appreciation for the profound beauty of the universe’s inherent design. Central to the story of symmetry is an obscure, unpretentious, but extremely gifted German mathematician named Emmy Noether. Though still little known to the world, she impressed no less a scientist than Albert Einstein, who praised her "penetrating mathematical thinking." In some of her earliest work she proved that the law of the conservation of energy was connected to the idea of symmetry and thus laid the mathematical groundwork for what may be the most important concept of modern physics. Lederman and Hill reveal concepts about the universe, based on Noether’s work, that are largely unknown to the public and have wide-reaching implications in connection with the Big Bang, Einstein’s theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other areas of physics. Through ingenious analogies and illustrations, they bring these astounding notions to life. This book will open your eyes to a universe you never knew existed.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0465082378

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Author : A. Zee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400874505

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An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications—from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, Fearful Symmetry describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics—one of the greatest chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.

Author : Dave Goldberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0142181048

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“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? If there is anti-matter, can there be anti-people? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Saluting the brilliant but unsung female mathematician Emmy Noether as well as other giants of physics, Goldberg answers these questions and more, exuberantly demonstrating that symmetry is the big idea—and the key to what lies ahead.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486442446

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This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.

Author : Frank Wilczek
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Harmony of the spheres
ISBN : 9781594205262

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A respected physicist presents a survey of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present, that explore how intertwined ideas about beauty and art are with scientific understandings of the cosmos.

Author : Heinz R. Pagels
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780671465483

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This book is divided into four parts. The first part, 'Herschel's Garden,' {aims to} give the reader an overview of the dynamic universe discovered by astronomers--the stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, interstellar gas and dust, quasars, galaxies, their distribution in space as clustersand superclusters of galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole. . . . The second part, 'The Early Universe,' {seeks to} describe the . . . picture of the universe when it was only seconds and minutes old. . . . The third part of the book, 'Wild Ideas,' . . . speculates about the nature of that universe before the first nanosecond {one-billionth of a second}. . . . There is a short fourth part, 'Reflections,' which expresses my opinions and attitudes.

Author : Cedric Michael Guss
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781420894219

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What if your darkest secret, something you intentionally kept hidden from others, was about to be uncovered? What would you do to keep it private? A young boy confronts his stepfather outside Evergreen Preferred Theaters after he sees him with a woman other than his mother in an intimate situation. The other woman is shocked to learn the man is married with a son. The man, Thomas Bowie, also known as Thomas Swite, is later found dead inside the Theater. Were these three people somehow involved in his death? With no suspects found by the police, Lloyd Hyde, the Theater's film projectionist, decides to investigate the crime. His boss, Mr. Calvert, someone who shows signs of being in a profession too long, tries to discourage him against the idea, even threatening to terminate his employment if he persists. Is he protecting a secret? Betsy, the Theater's sexy and manipulative employee, plans another tactic to stop Lloyd. She has her own reasons. Mix in a ghost, a capable yet callous police officer at the end of his uneventful career, an emotionally naïve needy young woman, and a brash young female executive hopeful. As Lloyd persists in his bravery, he gets closer to uncovering the murderer than he realizes as several secrets are revealed. Finally, on North County Airport Road, the final secrets are uncovered.

Author : Mohamed Haj Yousef
Publisher : Mohamed Haj Yousef
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1723828696

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This is the third volume in the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos series. The second volume introduced the Duality of Time Theory, which provided elegant solutions to many persisting problems in physics and cosmology, including super-symmetry and matter-antimatter asymmetry. In addition to uniting the principles of Relativity and Quantum theories, this theory can also explain the psychical and spiritual domains; all based on the same discrete complex-time geometry. Super-symmetry, and quantum gravity, are realized only with the two complementary physical and psychical worlds, while the spiritual realm is governed by hyper-symmetry, which mirrors the previous two levels together, and all these three realms mirror the ultimate level of absolute oneness that describes the symmetry of the divine presence of God and His Beautiful Names and Attributes. This "ULTIMATE SYMMETRY" is a modern scientific account of the same ancient mystical, and greatly controversial, theory of the "Oneness of Being" that is often misinterpreted in terms of "pantheism", but it is indeed the concluding gnostic knowledge of God and creation. Otherwise, how can we understand the origin of the cosmos, with both or either of its corporeal and incorporeal realms, without referring to its Originator! In the literal sense, ultimate or perfect symmetry may seem to be trivial, because it means that all possible transformations in such a symmetric system are invariant. The system we are talking about here is the whole Universe that we are watching and experiencing its immense and sometimes shattering changes every moment of time. Yet many great philosophers, such as Parmenides and Ibn al-Arabi, maintained their firm belief that reality is unchanging One and existence is timeless and uniform, while all apparent changes are mere illusions induced by or in our sensory faculties. Nevertheless, since we are living inside it, this illusion is as good as reality for us. Therefore, we still need to explain how the Universe is being formulated. Only when are able to transcend beyond the current chest of time, we shall discover that we were living a dream, and we shall be able to see the whole Universe as unchanging symmetry. The Single Monad Model and the resulting Duality of Time Theory provide the link between this apparent dynamic multiplicity of creation and the ultimate metaphysical oneness. In fact, the complex-time geometry concludes that we are imagining the reality because we are observing it from a genuinely imaginary time dimension. Since the ultimate reality is One, we cannot view it from outside, because there is none! Thus, as we quoted in the Introduction, in the Book of Theophanies, Ibn al-Arabi ascribes to God as saying: Listen, O My beloved! I am the conclusive entity of the World. I am the center of the circle (of existence) and its circumference. I am its simple point and its compound whole. I am the Word descending between heaven and earth. I have created perceptions for you only to perceive Me. If you then perceive Me, you perceive yourself. But don't ever crave to perceive Me through yourself! It is through My Eyes that you see Me and see yourself. But through your own eyes you can never see Me! This Theophany of Perfection summarizes the Ultimate Symmetry between the single point and the encompassing space. It also summarizes the instantaneous process of creation, or re-creation, which is breaking this symmetry into the two arrows of time, that produce particles and anti-particles, and then restoring it through each subsequent annihilation. This reunion is also the fundamental cause of motion, which is formulated as the Principle of Love that leads to the stationary action that is the initial assumption of most physics theories including Relativity and Quantum Field theories.

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393058581

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Introduces the superstring theory that attempts to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.