Conversations about Physics / edited by Howard Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, Howard, editor.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Miscellanea.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

Conversations About Physics, Volume 1, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. Nima Arkani-Hamed, faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton;2. Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore;3. Tony Leggett, Physics Nobel Laureate and Professor of Physics, University of Illinois;4. David Politzer, 2004 Nobel Laureate and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech;5. Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

Indiana Steinhardt

And the Quest for Quasicrystals

A conversation with Paul Steinhardt

Introduction

I. Introducing Quasicrystals

II. Building Models

III. Out of the Blue

IV. Competing Explanations

V. Looking to Nature

VI. New Year's Delight

VII. Confronting the Impossible

VIII. Tracking Khatyrkite

IX. Kamchatka

X. Passing It On

Continuing the Conversation

Cryptoreality

A conversation with Artur Ekert

I. Beginnings

II. Cryptographic Essentials

III. Public Key Cryptosystems

IV. Harnessing Interference

V. Quantum Sociology

VI. Quantum Metaphysics

VII. The Joy of Questioning

The Physics of Banjos

A conversation with David Politzer

I. The Feynman Experience

II. Love at First Sound

III. The Holy Grail

IV. The Ocarina Effect

V. Hearing Pitch

VI. Relative Strengths

VII. Transient Growth

VIII. The Working Physicist

IX. The Journey Continues

The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered

A conversation with Tony Leggett

I. Back to the Future

II. The Very Small

III. The Very Large

IV. A Glassy Digression

V. The Very Complex

VI. Understanding

VII. Different Regimes

VIII. Schrödinger's Cat

IX. The Slings and Arrows of Time

X. The Anthropic Principle

XI. The Future of Physics

The Power of Principles

Physics Revealed

A conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed

I. Physics Time Management

II. The Problem with Popularization

III. In Feynman's Footsteps

IV. Describing Reality

V. A Timeless Community

VI. Against Relativism

VII. Strongly Constrained

VIII. In Search of a Formula

IX. A Principled Example

X. Supersymmetry

XI. Reacting Precipitously

XII. Tangled Pillars.

XIII. The Pull of the Truth

XIV. Choosing a Better Description

XV. Beyond Space-Time.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771701914

1771701919

9781771701488

177170148X

OCLC:

1255221918