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Che relazione ci può essere tra "Fantasia-Improvviso" di Chopin e la meccanica quantistica? Che sensazione farebbe cadere in un buco nero? E perché ballare un valzer non è troppo diverso da considerare una dualità di stringhe? Questo libro di Steven Gubser introduce il lettore in modo leggero e brillante alle idee chiave della concezione delle stringhe, uno dei campi più nuovi e controversi della fisica contemporanea. Nel loro tentativo di combinare insieme relatività generale e meccanica quantistica, i teorici delle stringhe spaziano dall'in-finitamente piccolo all'infinitamente grande, non smettendo di provocare sul loro terreno matematici, fisici e filosofi con problemi nuovi e affascinanti.
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- Pagine: 181
- Data di uscita: 05-05-2010
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Could not finish In a 150 page book for laymen,you should not be able to get your audience to the point the they can understand sentences like "...D5-branes are exchanged with solitonic 5-branes, and D3-branes are unaffected by the duality..." Actually, you should never write sentences like that. Real Leggi tutto
This book is a mystery. "The Little Book of String Theory" occupies a strange space: not accessible enough to be a true introduction, yet not technical enough to be more than a primer for those with more familiarity with the topic. It is therefore an admirable attempt, with enough successes to invit Leggi tutto
An incredibly well-written book on ST. Makes difficult things look easy via routine use of mind-experiments. I can imagine that for readers with aphantasia this might prove to be a chore, so they might want to skip it altogether. The ones who live to love imagining quirky stuff would benefit from it Leggi tutto
An introduction to string theory This book starts with a brief introduction to the basic laws of physics, and the search for an ultimate theory to explain the physical reality. When the author starts describing the string theory, things get complicated. The reader must bear in mind that this is not a Leggi tutto
this book had so much potential! too bad the narrative was bogged down by the lengthy analogies and the authors self inserts. any insightful thoughts were buried within the long-winded descriptions of equations, that could have easily been better represented numerically. not a book for me. at least
Well, I guess the Gubser method of instruction does not work too well on me. Having finished a beautiful, elegant popular-level explanation of the main competing quantum gravity theory to strings - LQG - I wanted to be fair and look (once again) into what the deal is with those damn strings and wheth Leggi tutto
It was interesting, but it would've been better without so many unnecessary analogies. Especially the ones where the author went on a wild tangent in order to find some excuse to show off about his rock climbing abilities. 'One time, I was rock climbing this really hard mountain, and it was super co Leggi tutto
Gubser does a fine job of explaining most of the concepts covered in this book, notably supersymmetry, but had a harder time with string theory itself, though that has more to do with how abstract and unintuitive string theory is. He does unfortunately repeatedly use weird or inappropriate analogies Leggi tutto
Sadly, I discovered that Steven has died in the year 2019 at the age of 47. The present book is an interesting attempt to introduce the reader to superstring theory. Was it successful? Well, by no means, actually. Just like any other book on the subject this one falls short. The author is not to bla Leggi tutto
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