Xviii,254 Pp. Dark Blue And Medium Blue Boards. First Printing Indicated. Signed By Laughlin 5. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced Us$26.00. Per Wikipedia, Robert Betts Laughlin (Born 1950) Is The Anne T. And Robert M. Bass Professor Of Physics And Applied Physics At Stanford University. Along With Horst L. St�rmer Of Columbia University And Daniel C. Tsui Of Princeton University, He Was Awarded A Share Of The 1998 Nobel Prize In Physics For Their Explanation Of The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. In 1983, Laughlin Was First To Provide A Many Body Wave Function, Now Known As The Laughlin Wave-Function, For The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Which Was Able To Correctly Explain The Fractionalized Charge Observed In Experiments. This State Has Since Been Interpreted As The Integer Quantum Hall Effect Of The Composite Fermion. His 2017 Paper, "Pumped Thermal Grid Storage With Heat Exchange" Inspired Project Malta At Google X And Subsequently Malta Inc.

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Titre

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down

�diteur

Basic Books ( Perseus Books)

Date de parution

2005

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

046503828X

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780465038282

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

1st Edition

�tat de l'article

Fine

�tat de la jaquette

Fine

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Not since Richard Feynman has a Nobel Prize-winning physicist written with as much panache as Robert Laughlin does in this revelatory and essential book. Laughlin proposes nothing less than a new way of understanding fundamental laws of science. In this age of superstring theories and Big-Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as being impossibly distant from our everyday lives. The edges of science, we're told, lie in the first nanofraction of a second of the Universe's existence, or else in realms so small that they can't be glimpsed even by the most sophisticated experimental techniques. But we haven't reached the end of science, Laughlin argues-only the end of reductionist thinking. If we consider the world of emergent properties instead, suddenly the deepest mysteries are as close as the nearest ice cube or grain of salt. And he goes farther: the most fundamental laws of physics-such as Newton's laws of motion and quantum mechanics -are in fact emergent. They are properties of large assemblages of matter, and when their exactness is examined too closely, it vanishes into nothing.A Different Universe takes us into a universe where the vacuum of space has to be considered a kind of solid matter, where sound has quantized particles just like those of light, where there are many phases of matter, not just three, and where metal resembles a liquid while superfluid helium is more like a solid. It is a universe teeming with natural phenomena still to be discovered. This is a truly mind-altering book that shows readers a surprising, exquisitely beautiful and mysterious new world.

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Robert Laughlin is the Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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