Fear of a black universe : an outsider's guide to the future of physics / Stephon Alexander.

"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physic...

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Main Author: Alexander, Stephon (Author)
Other title:Outsider's guide to the future of physics.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Escape from the jungle of no imaginations
  • The changeless change
  • Superposition
  • The zen of quantum fields
  • Emergence
  • If Basquiat were a physicist
  • What banged?
  • A dark conductor of quantum galaxies
  • Cosmic virtual reality
  • Embracing instabilities
  • A cosmologist's view of a quantum elephant
  • The cosmic biosphere
  • Dark ideas on alien life
  • Into the cosmic matrix
  • The cosmic mind and quantum cosmology.