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The Science Of Interstellar
''The Science of Interstellar'' is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, with a foreword by Christopher Nolan. The book was initially published on November 7, 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company. This is his second full-size book for non-scientists after ''Black Holes and Time Warps'', released in 1994. ''The Science of Interstellar'' is a follow-up text for Nolan's 2014 film '' Interstellar'', starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. Overview Kip Thorne was the scientific consultant and an executive producer for the movie. In this book he explains the scientific concepts behind the film's cosmological ideas. See also Related articles * Bootstrap paradox * Event horizon * Interstellar spacecraft * Interstellar travel * Wormholes in fiction Similar books * '' Parallel Worlds'' by Michio Kaku * ''The Elegant Universe'' by Brian Greene * '' The Fabric of the Cosmos'' by Brian Greene * '' The Fabric of Reality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film '' Interstellar''. Thorne was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". Life and career Thorne was born on June 1, 1940, in Logan, Utah. His father, D. Wynne Thorne (1908–1979), was a professor of soil chemistry at Utah State University, and his mother, Alison (née C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wormholes In Fiction
An Einstein–Rosen bridge, or wormhole, is a postulated method, within the general theory of relativity, of moving from one point in space to another without crossing the space between. Wormholes are a popular feature of science fiction as they allow faster-than-light interstellar travel within human timescales. A related concept in various fictional genres is the portable hole. While there's no clear demarcation between the two, this article deals with fictional, but pseudo-scientific, treatments of faster-than-light travel through space. A jumpgate is a fictional device able to create an Einstein–Rosen bridge portal (or wormhole), allowing fast travel between two points in space. In franchises ''Stargate'' franchise Wormholes are the principal means of space travel in the ''Stargate (movie), Stargate'' movie and the spin-off television series, ''Stargate SG-1'', ''Stargate Atlantis'' and ''Stargate Universe,'' to the point where it was called the franchise that is "far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Non-fiction Books
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Popular Physics Books
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2014 Non-fiction Books
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The Universe In A Nutshell
''The Universe in a Nutshell'' is a 2001 book about theoretical physics by Stephen Hawking. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller '' A Brief History of Time'' was published in 1988. Content In it Hawking explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe." at Hawking.org.uk Awards< ...
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David Deutsch
David Elieser Deutsch ( ; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He has also proposed the use of entangled states and Bell's theorem for quantum key distribution and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Early life and education Deutsch was born into a Jewish family in Haifa, Israel on 18 May 1953, the son of Oskar and Tikva Deutsch. In London, David attended Geneva House school in Cricklewood (his parents owned and ran the Alma restaurant on Cricklewood Broadway), followed by William Ellis School in Highgate (then a voluntary aided school in north London) before readi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fabric Of Reality
''The Fabric of Reality'' is a 1997 book by physicist David Deutsch. His follow-up book, ''The Beginning of Infinity'', was published in 2011. Overview The book expands on his views of quantum mechanics and its implications for understanding reality. This interpretation, which he calls the '' multiverse'' hypothesis, is one of a four-strand Theory of Everything (TOE). The four strands #Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, "The first and most important of the four strands". # Karl Popper's epistemology, especially its anti-inductivism and its requiring a realist (non-instrumental) interpretation of scientific theories, and its emphasis on taking seriously those bold conjectures that resist being falsified. #Alan Turing's theory of computation, especially as developed in Deutsch's "Turing principle", where Turing's Universal Turing machine is replaced by Deutsch's universal quantum computer. ("''The'' theory of computation is now the quantum theory of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fabric Of The Cosmos
''The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'' (2004) is the second book on theoretical physics, cosmology, and string theory written by Brian Greene, professor and co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP).ISCAP member list URL accessed August 14, 2006 Introduction Greene begins with the key question: "what is ?", or more specifically, "what is ?" He sets out to describe the features he finds both exciting and essential to forming a full picture of the reality painted by modern |
Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 19901995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, '' The Elegant Universe'', '' Icarus at the Edge of Time'', '' The Fabric of the Cosmos'', '' The Hidden Reality'', and related PBS television specials. He also appeared on ''The Big Bang Theory'' episode " The Herb Garden Germination", as well as the films ''Frequency'' and '' The Last Mimzy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elegant Universe
''The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory'' is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings. In 2000, it won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A new edition was released in 2003, with an updated preface. Table of contents * Preface (with an additional preface to the 2003 edition) * Part I: The Edge of Knowledge * Part II: The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta * Part III: The Cosmic Symphony * Part IV: String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime * Part V: Unification in the Twenty-First Century Contents Beginning with a brief consideration of classical physics, which concentrates on the major conflicts in physics, Greene establishes a historical context for string theory as a necessary means of integrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
