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Is the universe a hologram? : scientists answer the most provocative questions / [interviews by] Adolfo Plasencia ; foreword by Tim O'Reilly.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Miscellanea.
- Science.
- Science--Popular works.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Conversations with scientists, conducted by a veteran science writer, addressing such issues as intelligence, consciousness, global warming, energy, changing the past, and even the philosophical curveball, "Is the universe a hologram?"
- Contents:
- Quantum physics takes free will into account / Ignacio Cirac
- Unifying particle physics with cosmology of the primordial universe / José Bernabéu
- For exoplanets, anything is possible / Sara Seager
- From Casimir forces to black-body radiation : quantum and thermal fluctuations / Alejandro W. Rodriguez
- The challenge of climate change / Mario J. Molina
- Graphene and its "family" : the finest materials ever to exist / Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
- The laws of thermodynamics will tell you what is and what is not possible / Avelina Corma
- Wisdon hewn in ancient stones / John Ochsendorf
- Galileo programme : planning uncertainty and imagining the possible and the impossible / Javier Benedicto
- Looking forward in architecture by looking back / Yung Ho Chang
- The seamless coupling of bits and atoms / Hiroshi Ishii.
- Convergence culture : where old and new media collide / Henry Jenkins
- The logic of physics and logic of computer science / Bebo White
- The pillars of MIT : innovation, radical meritocracy, and open knowledge / Hal Abelson
- We need algorithms that can make explicit what is implicit / Bernardo Cuenca Grau
- The emergence of a nonbiological intelligence / Michail Bietsas
- Remember our future : the frontier of search technologies / Ricardo Baeza-Yates
- The challenge of the open dissemination of knowledge, distributed intelligence, and information technology / Anne Margulies
- Technology is something to make the world a better place / Tim O'Reilly
- Encryption as a human right / David Casacuberta
- Order in cyberspace can only be maintained with a combination of ethics and technology / John Perry Barlow
- The free software paradigm and the hacker ethic / Richard Stallman.
- "Affective computing" is no an oxymoron / Rosalind W. Picard
- Mind, brain, and behavior / Alvaro Pascual-Leone
- MIT collaborative innovation : it takes >2 to tango / Israel Ruiz
- Mind over matter : brain-machine interfaces / Jose M. Carmena
- We want robots to see and understand the world / Antonio Torralba
- Between caves : from Plato to the brain through the internet / Javier Echeverria
- There will be no end of work / Paul Osterman
- A smart mob is not necessarily a wise mob / Howard Rheingold
- Measuring the intelligence of everything / José Hernández-Orallo
- Touching the soul of Michelangelo / Gianluigi Colalucci
- Geometry of a multidimensional universe : weightless art and the painting of the void / José María Yturralde.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Is the universe a hologram?
- ISBN:
- 9780262036016
- 0262036010
- OCLC:
- 958796601
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