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Sulle origini della vita, del significato e dell'universo: Il quadro d'insieme 31-ago-2021

12,99 € 36,00 €

«Qui mi pongo due obiettivi. Uno è di spiegare la storia del nostro universo e perché pensiamo che sia cosí: il quadro d'insieme come lo comprendiamo attualmente. È una visione fantastica. Noi esseri umani siamo ammassi di fango organizzato, che attraverso il funzionamento impersonale delle leggi della natura hanno sviluppato la capacità di contemplare, amare e affrontare la formidabile complessità del mondo che ci circonda. Per capire noi stessi, dobbiamo capire di che cosa siamo fatti, il che significa che dobbiamo scavare a fondo nel regno delle particelle, delle forze e dei fenomeni quantistici, per non parlare dell'incredibile varietà di modi in cui questi pezzi microscopici possono unirsi a formare sistemi organizzati capaci di sentire e pensare.
L'altro obiettivo è offrire un po' di terapia esistenziale. La mia tesi è che, sebbene facciamo parte di un universo che funziona secondo leggi impersonali soggiacenti, abbiamo comunque importanza. Non si tratta di un quesito scientifico: non esistono dati ottenibili con opportuni esperimenti che possano misurare il grado in cui una vita ha importanza. È un vero e proprio problema filosofico, che richiede di lasciarci alle spalle il modo in cui pensiamo alle nostre vite e al loro significato da migliaia di anni».

«Con profonda intelligenza e un linguaggio semplice e chiaro, Sean Carroll espone magnificamente la visione del mondo proposta dal naturalismo contemporaneo. Questioni spinose come il libero arbitrio, la direzione del tempo e l'origine della moralità vengono chiarite con acutezza ed eleganza. Il grande disegno mostra quanto la visione scientifica del mondo sia in grado di arricchire la nostra comprensione dell'universo e di noi stessi. Un resoconto affidabile della nostra conoscenza dell'universo, e una serena meditazione sul nostro bisogno di dare un senso alla realtà. Un libro che tutti dovrebbero leggere».
Carlo Rovelli

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Qualcosa di nascosto a fondo: Il mondo dei quanti e l'emergere dello spaziotempo (Saggi Vol. 1006) 15-set-2020

da Sean Carroll, Daniele A. Gewurz

( 67 )

12,99 € 22,00 €

La maggior parte dei fisici non ha mai ammesso la spiacevole verità: la fisica è in crisi dal 1927. La meccanica quantistica ha sempre mostrato lacune evidenti, che semplicemente si è preferito ignorare. I divulgatori sottolineano quanto vi sia di misterioso e impossibile da capire. I professori scoraggiano gli studenti dall'inoltrarsi nel «vicolo cieco» delle basi della teoria quantistica. Carroll invece, con questo libro audace quanto plausibile, afferma che la crisi può trovare una sua fine. Dobbiamo solo accettare che ci sia piú di uno di noi nell'universo. Ci sono molti e molti Sean Carroll. Molti di ognuno di noi. Copie di ognuno di noi vengono generate migliaia di volte al secondo. In accordo con la teoria dei comportamenti quantistici dei molti mondi, ogni volta che si verifica un evento quantistico, un mondo si divide insieme a tutto ciò che contiene, a eccezione di quell'altro mondo in cui l'evento non si è verificato. Passo dopo passo e con estrema lucidità, Carroll affronta le principali obiezioni a questa sorta di rivelazione ultraterrena, fino a quando la sua tesi non risulterà inesorabilmente dimostrata. Raramente un libro ha riorganizzato cosí a fondo i termini in cui pensiamo al nostro posto nell'universo. Siamo sulla soglia di una nuova comprensione del luogo in cui ci troviamo nel cosmo e di cosa siamo fatti.

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (English Edition) 10-set-2019

da Sean Carroll

( 2.792 )

5,73 € 13,60 €

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

As you read these words, copies of you are being created.

Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything.

Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us.

Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established.

Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.

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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (English Edition) 10-mag-2016

da Sean M. Carroll

( 3.029 )

9,49 € 16,04 €

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.

“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science
“A tour de force.”—Salon

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level—and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

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The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize (English Edition) 1-nov-2012

da Sean Carroll

( 709 )

9,01 € 14,51 €

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist

It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – or occasional skulduggery. In the definitive account of the greatest science story of our time, acclaimed physicist Sean Carroll reveals the insights, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs discovery, and takes us on a riveting and irresistible ride to the very edge of physics today.

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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion (English Edition) 20-set-2022

da Sean M. Carroll

( 402 )

11,01 € 20,89 €

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal
“A porthole into another world.”—Scientific American
“Brings science dissemination to a new level.”—Science

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality.

Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables.

No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.

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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (English Edition) 6-nov-2009

da Sean Carroll

( 616 )

3,42 € 15,60 €

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?

Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can’t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today’s hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself—a period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child’s play. Carroll’s scenario is not only elegant, it’s laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.

From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It’s an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.

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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (English Edition) 8-ago-2019

da Sean M. Carroll

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42,47 € 60,67 €

Spacetime and Geometry is an introductory textbook on general relativity, specifically aimed at students. Using a lucid style, Carroll first covers the foundations of the theory and mathematical formalism, providing an approachable introduction to what can often be an intimidating subject. Three major applications of general relativity are then discussed: black holes, perturbation theory and gravitational waves, and cosmology. Students will learn the origin of how spacetime curves (the Einstein equation) and how matter moves through it (the geodesic equation). They will learn what black holes really are, how gravitational waves are generated and detected, and the modern view of the expansion of the universe. A brief introduction to quantum field theory in curved spacetime is also included. A student familiar with this book will be ready to tackle research-level problems in gravitational physics.

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Was ist die Welt und wenn ja, wie viele: Wie die Quantenmechanik unser Weltbild verändert (German Edition) 13-mar-2021

da Sean Carroll, Jens Hagestedt

( 30 )

19,99 € 24,29 €

»Eine packende Tour durch den vielleicht größten intellektuellen Erfolg der Menschheit – die Quantenmechanik. Meisterhaft kühn und klar enträtselt Sean Carroll die bizarre Welt der Quanten und enthüllt eine seltsame Wirklichkeit, die uns vollkommen erstaunt.« Brian Greene
Unser Alltag ist ohne die Quantenphysik gar nicht mehr denkbar: Elektronik, Digitaltechnologien, Laser, Mobiltelefon, Satelliten, Fernseher, Radio, Nukleartechnik, die moderne Chemie, medizinische Diagnostik – sie alle beruhen auf der Quantentheorie.
Höchste Zeit zu versuchen, der besten Theorie unserer physikalischen Wirklichkeit näherzukommen und sie zu verstehen. Wie man sie für interessierte Laien veranschaulichen und erklären kann, das gelingt dem Bestsellerautor Sean Carroll mit seiner Version der Viele-Welten-These auf unnachahmliche und beeindruckende Weise.
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»Carroll nimmt uns an der Hand und führt uns lächelnd und gesprächig an jenen Ort, an dem sich in jedem Augenblick eine beinahe unendliche Anzahl von Kopien von uns abspaltet, um alternative Leben zu führen. Eine wilde konzeptuelle Fahrt – das ›Sachbuch des Jahres‹ «!
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»Ich war überwältigt, als ich erkannte, dass so viele grundlegende Fragen so ausgezeichnet erklärt wurden wie noch nie zuvor. ›Was ist die Welt und wenn ja, wie viele‹ ist ein Meisterwerk: Die beste Popularisierung der Quantenmechanik, die ich je gesehen habe, Punkt.«
Scott Aaronson, Professor für Informatik und Direktor des Quanten Information Center an der Universität von Texas in Austin.

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Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones (English Edition) 29-ott-2019

da Rebecca C. Thompson, Sean Carroll

( 50 )

10,77 € 15,39 €

Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters

Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science—fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin’s fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist’s eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading. Thompson, a PhD in physics and an enthusiastic Game of Thrones fan, uses the fantasy science of the show as a gateway to some interesting real science, introducing GOT fandom to a new dimension of appreciation.

Thompson starts at the beginning, with winter, explaining seasons and the very elliptical orbit of the Earth that might cause winter to come (or not come). She tells us that ice can behave like ketchup, compares regular steel to Valyrian steel, explains that dragons are “bats, but with fire,” and considers Targaryen inbreeding. Finally she offers scientific explanations of the various types of fatal justice meted out, including beheading, hanging, poisoning (reporting that the effects of “the Strangler,” administered to Joffrey at the Purple Wedding, resemble the effects of strychnine), skull crushing, and burning at the stake.

Even the most faithful Game of Thrones fans will learn new and interesting things about the show from Thompson’s entertaining and engaging account. Fire, Ice, and Physics is an essential companion for all future bingeing.

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God and Cosmology: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialogue (Greer-Heard Lectures) (English Edition) 1-apr-2016

da Sean Carroll, William Lane Craig, Robert B. Stewart

( 8 )

42,22 € 60,31 €

The question of God and cosmology is far from abstract. In fact, the subject raises the deepest questions of human existence: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Or, to put it more personally, “Why am I here?”

Structured as a debate, the 2014 Greer-Heard Forum focused on the issue of God and cosmology and its impact on life and self-understanding. Christian philosopher William Lane Craig and atheist cosmologist Sean Carroll presented their views before a packed crowd of more than nine hundred people. Spirited, civil, and often humorous, the debate highlighted not only their positions, but the full range of possibilities.

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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity: Pearson New International Edition (English Edition) 20-mar-2014

da Sean Carroll

( 116 )

98,17 € 140,24 €

Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity provides a lucid and thoroughly modern introduction to general relativity for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It introduces modern techniques and an accessible and lively writing style to what can often be a formal and intimidating subject. Readers are led from physics of flat spacetime (special relativity), through the intricacies of differential geometry and Einstein's equations, and on to exciting applications such as black holes, gravitational radiation, and cosmology.

Subtle points are illuminated throughout the text by careful and entertaining exposition. A straightforward and lucid approach, balancing mathematical rigor and physical insight, are hallmarks of this important text.

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