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Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire :

026253634X

9780262536349

Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire :

[Book]

the biggest ideas in science from Quanta /

edited by Thomas Lin ; foreword by Sean Carroll.

[Cambridge, Massachusetts] :

The MIT Press,

[2018]

xx, 308 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Quanta magazine

Place of publication taken from the back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why doesn't our universe make sense? Is nature unnatural? / Natalie Wolchover ; Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire / Jennifer Ouellette ; Wormholes untangle a black hole paradox / K.C. Cole ; How quantum pairs stitch space-time / Jennifer Ouellette ; In a multiverse, what are the odds? / Natalie Wolchover ; Multiverse collisions may dot the sky / Jennifer Ouellette ; How Feynman diagrams almost saved space / Frank Wilczek -- What is quantum reality, really? A jewel at the heart of quantum physics / Natalie Wolchover ; New support for alternative quantum view / Dan Falk ; Entanglement made simple / Frank Wilczek ; Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles / Philip Ball -- What is time? Time's arrow traced to quantum source / Natalie Wolchover ; Quantum weirdness now a matter of time / George Musser ; A debate over the physics of time / Dan Falk -- What is life? A New Physics Theory Of Life / Natalie Wolchover ; How Life (And Death) Spring From Disorder / Philip Ball ; In Newly Created Life-Form, A Major Mystery / Emily Singer ; Break Through DNA Editor Born Of Bacteria / Carl Zimmer ; New Letters Added To The Genetic Alphabet / Emily Singer ; The Surprising Origins Of Life's Complexity / Carl Zimmerp ; Ancient Survivors Could Redefine Sex / Emily Singer ; Did Neurons Evolve Twice? / Emily Singer -- What Makes Us Human? How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains / Ferris Jabr ; New Evidence For The Necessity Of Loneliness / Emily Singer ; How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity / Emily Singer ; The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions / Emily Singer ; Infant Brains Reveal How The Mind Gets Built / Courtney Humphries -- How Do Machines Learn? Is Alphago Really Such A Big Deal? / Michael Nielsen ; New Theory Cracks Open The Black Box Of Deep Learning / Natalie Wolchover ; A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can Learn / Andreas von Bubnoff ; Clever Machines Learn How To Be Curious / John Pavlus -- How Will We Learn More? Gravitational Waves Discovered At Long Last / Natalie Wolchover ; Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story Of Stars / Natalie Wolchover ; Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time And Lights Up The Sky / Katia Moskvitch -- Where Do We Go From Here? What No New Particles Means For Physics / Natalie Wolchover ; To Solve The Biggest Mystery In Physics, Join Two Kinds Of Law / Robbert Dijkgraaf ; The Strange Second Life Of String Theory / K.C Cole ; A Fight For The Soul Of Science / Natalie Wolchover.

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A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine. --Publisher

Biology, Popular works.

Physics, Popular works.

Biology.

Naturwissenschaften

Physics.

Zeitschrift

Carroll, Sean M.,1966-

Lin, Thomas, (Journalist)

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