- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- Chapter:
- (p.21) 2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe
- Source:
- Is the Universe a Hologram?
- Author(s):
José Bernabéu
Adolfo Plasencia
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
The dialogue with physicist José Bernabéu firstly looks into why discovery of the Higgs boson has a spiritual dimension and is a great starting point for new discovery. It then moves on to discuss why CERN, the largest laboratory in the world, is the supreme symbol of an advanced Society and a “civilization catalyst”. American, Asian and European physicists working together as equals in a place that is an essential expression of “understanding”; the noblest and most sublime human expression. An explanation then follows about how observation of incredibly small things using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is leading to a new type of physics for explaining unsolved problems, such as the mass of neutrons, matter and dark energy, without losing view of the ‘bigger picture ’in order to widen knowledge of the cosmos. For example with Hubble, where the further away we look, the further back in time we see. Finally, a recent contribution by Bernabéu is discussed which deals with ‘Time-reversal violation with quantum-entangled B mesons’, a consideration of the behavior of elementary particles, as part of the quest to try and understand the intriguing symmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter.
Keywords: Physics of the primordial universe, Dark matter, Dark energy, Higgs boson, Copernican revolution, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), European Organization for Nuclear Physics (CERN), Breaking of time-reversal symmetry, Standard Model of particle physics, Arrow of time
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
