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The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next / by Smolin, Lee,1955-(CARDINAL)637103;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-371) and index.The five great problems in theoretical physics -- The beauty myth -- The world as geometry -- Unification becomes a science -- From unification to superunification -- Quantum gravity : the fork in the road -- Preparing for a revolution -- The first superstring revolution -- Revolution number two -- A theory of anything -- The anthropic solution -- What string theory explains -- Surprises from the real world -- Building on Einstein -- Physics after string theory -- How do you fight sociology? -- What is science? -- Seers and craftspeople -- How science really works -- What we can do for science.
Subjects: Physics; String models.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design / by Susskind, Leonard.(CARDINAL)473658;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The world according to Feynman -- The mother of all physics problems -- The lay of the land -- The myth of uniqueness and elegance -- A thunderbolt from heaven -- On frozen fish and boiled fish -- A rubber band-powered world -- Reincarnation -- On our own? -- The branes behind Rube Goldberg's greatest machine -- A bubble bath universe -- The black hole war -- Summing up.The beginning of the 21st century is a watershed in modern science, a time that will forever change our understanding of the universe, Susskind contends. Several decades ago, he introduced the revolutionary concept of string theory to the world of physical science. In doing so, he inspired a generation of physicists who believed that the theory would uniquely predict the properties of our universe. Now, in his first book, Susskind argues that the very idea of such an "elegant theory" no longer suits our understanding of the universe, and that our narrow 20th-century view of a unique universe will have to give way to the much broader concept of a gigantic cosmic landscape--a megaverse, pregnant with new possibilities.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Cosmogony.; Astrophysics.; Intelligent design (Teleology); String models.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 10
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Warped passages : brane-worlds, particles, strings, and the Universe's hidden dimensions / by Randall, Lisa.(CARDINAL)476474;
Subjects: Physics; Particles (Nuclear physics); Cosmology.; String models.; Branes.;
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Warped passages unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden dimensions / by Randall, Lisa.(CARDINAL)476474;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Entryway passages : demystifying dimensions -- Restricted passages : rolled-up extra dimensions -- Exclusive passages : branes, braneworlds, and the bulk -- Approaches to theoretical physics -- Relativity : the evolution of Einstein's gravity -- Quantum mechanics : principled uncertainty, the principal uncertainties, and the uncertainty principle -- The standard model of particle physics : matter's most basic known structure -- Experimental interlude : verifying the standard model -- Symmetry : the essential organizing principle -- The origin of elementary particle masses : spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism -- Scaling and grand unification : relating interactions at different lengths and energies -- The hierarchy problem : the only effective trickle-down theory -- Supersymmetry : a leap beyond the standard model -- Allegro (ma non troppo) passage for strings -- Supporting passages : brane development -- Bustling passages : braneworlds -- Sparsely populated passages : multiverses and sequestering -- Leaky passages : fingerprints of extra dimensions -- Voluminous passages : large extra dimensions -- Warped passage : a solution to the hierarchy problem -- The warped annotated "Alice" -- Profound passage : an infinite extra dimension -- A reflective and expansive passage -- Extra dimensions : are you in or out? -- (In)conclusion.
Subjects: Branes.; Cosmology.; Particles (Nuclear physics); Physics; String models.;
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Warped passages : unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden dimensions / by Randall, Lisa.(CARDINAL)476474;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Entryway passages : demystifying dimensions -- Restricted passages : rolled-up extra dimensions -- Exclusive passages : branes, braneworlds, and the bulk -- Approaches to theoretical physics -- Relativity : the evolution of Einstein's gravity -- Quantum mechanics : principled uncertainty, the principal uncertainties, and the uncertainty principle -- The standard model of particle physics : matter's most basic known structure -- Experimental interlude : verifying the standard model -- Symmetry : the essential organizing principle -- The origin of elementary particle masses : spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism -- Scaling and grand unification : relating interactions at different lengths and energies -- The hierarchy problem : the only effective trickle-down theory -- Supersymmetry : a leap beyond the standard model -- Allegro (ma non troppo) passage for strings -- Supporting passages : brane development -- Bustling passages : braneworlds -- Sparsely populated passages : multiverses and sequestering -- Leaky passages : fingerprints of extra dimensions -- Voluminous passages : large extra dimensions -- Warped passage : a solution to the hierarchy problem -- The warped annotated "Alice" -- Profound passage : an infinite extra dimension -- A reflective and expansive passage -- Extra dimensions : are you in or out? -- (In)conclusion.Discusses dimensions of space, early twentieth-century advances, the physics of elementary particles, string theory and branes, and proposals for extra-dimension universes.
Subjects: Branes.; Cosmology.; Particles (Nuclear physics); Physics; String models.;
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Fashion, faith, and fantasy in the new physics of the universe / by Penrose, Roger,author.(CARDINAL)726298;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-489) and index.Fashion. Mathematical elegance as a driving force ; Some fashionable physics of the past ; Particle-physics background to string theory ; The superposition principle in QFT ; The power of Feynman diagrams ; The original key ideas of string theory ; Time in Einstein's general relativity ; Weyl's gauge theory of electromagnetism ; Functional freedom in Kaluza-Klein and string models ; Quantum obstructions to functional freedom? ; Classical instability of higher-dimensional string theory ; The fashionable status of string theory ; M-theory ; Supersymmetry ; AdS/CFT ; Brane-worlds and the landscape -- Faith. The quantum revelation ; Max Planck's E = hv ; The wave-particle paradox ; Quantum and classical levels : C, U, and R ; Wave function of a point-like particle ; Wave function of a photon ; Quantum linearity ; Quantum measurement ; The geometry of quantum spin ; Quantum entanglement and EPR effects ; Quantum functional freedom ; Quantum reality ; Objective quantum state reduction : a limit to the quantum faith? -- Fantasy. The Big Bang and FLRW cosmologies ; Black holes and local irregularities ; The second law of thermodynamics ; The Big Bang paradox ; Horizons, comoving volumes, and conformal diagrams ; The phenomenal precision in the Big Bang ; Cosmological entropy? ; Vacuum energy ; Inflationary cosmology ; The anthropic principle ; Some more fantastical cosmologies -- A new physics for the universe? Twistor theory : an alternative to strings? ; Whither quantum foundations? ; Conformal crazy cosmology? ; A personal coda -- Appendix A. Mathematical appendix. Iterated exponents ; Functional freedom of fields ; Vector spaces ; Vector bases, coordinates, and duals ; Mathematics of manifolds ; Manifolds in physics ; Bundles ; Functional freedom via bundles ; Complex numbers ; Complex geometry ; Harmonic analysis."What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and best-selling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas--string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.... The result is an important critique of some of the most significant developments in physics today from one of its most eminent figures."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Physics; Physics; String models.; Quantum theory.; Cosmology.; Physics.;
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Selected short stories / by Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893.(CARDINAL)143323;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Boule de suif -- In the spring -- The graveyard sisterhood -- Madame Tellier's establishment -- A ruse -- An old man -- Rust -- Two friends -- The conservatory -- The matter with André -- My Uncle Jules -- A duel -- The convert -- In the bedroom -- Regret -- The decoration -- The piece of string -- The model -- The hand -- Idyll -- Mother Savage -- Guillemot rock -- Imprudence -- The signal -- In the woods -- The devil -- The horla -- The mask -- Mouche.
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories.; Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893;
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Ancient Greece / by Purdy, Susan Gold,1939-(CARDINAL)715024; Dodson, Bert,illustrator.(CARDINAL)333247; Sandak, Cass R.(CARDINAL)318113; Dodson, Bert,illustrator.(CARDINAL)333247; Sandak, Cass R.(CARDINAL)318113;
Briefly describes ancient Greek civilization and provides instructions for making models of items such as Greek columns, statues, stringed instruments, and catapults.
Subjects: Handicraft.; Handicraft; Models and modelmaking.; Models and modelmaking;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Midsomer murders. [videorecording] / by Graham, Caroline,1931-Inspector Barnaby.(CARDINAL)628970; Hammond, Peter J.,screenwriter.; Hughes, Jason,1971-actor.; Jackson, Barry,1938-2013,actor.; Nettles, John,1943-actor.(CARDINAL)286094; Smith, Peter(Film director),television director.; True-May, Brian,television producer.; Wymark, Jane,1952-actor.; Acorn Media (Firm)(CARDINAL)340133; All 3 Media International (Firm); Bentley Productions (Firm);
Music composed by Jim Parker ; editor, John Blackwell ; director of photography, Colin Munn.John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson."The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.Rating: Not rated.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Barnaby, Chief Inspector (Fictitious character); Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Murder; Murderers; Police;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The Lion King idea lab / by Olmanson, Shaina,author.(CARDINAL)399883;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Before you get started -- Zazu flyers -- Simba mosaic -- Pride rock model -- Look at the stars telescope -- Melting moon bridge -- Circuit bugs -- Rain in a jar -- Lioness string art."Learn all about the world of STEAM [science, technology, engineering, art, and math] with crafts and activities inspired by Disney's The Lion King. Projects include guiding photos and step-by-step instructions. STEAM Takeaway features provide additional curricular connections to the projects"--Ages 7-11.Grades K to 3.840L
Subjects: Lion King (Motion picture : 1994); Handicraft; Science;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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