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A different universe : reinventing physics from the bottom down / Robert B. Laughlin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laughlin, Robert B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Popular works.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- Laughlin takes readers 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.
- Contents:
- Frontier law
- Living with uncertainty
- Mount Newton
- Water, ice, and vapor
- Schrödinger's cat
- The quantum computer
- Vin Klitzing
- I solved it at dinner
- The nuclear family
- The fabric of space-time
- Carnival of the baubles
- The dark side of protection
- Principles of life
- Star warriors
- Picnic table in the sun
- The emergent age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 046503828X
- OCLC:
- 57143210
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