Is the universe a hologram?
Subtitle: scientists answer the most provocative questions
By: Adolfo Plasencia ; foreword by Tim O'Reilly
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780262036016
Subjects: Science; Popular works; Miscellanea
Description: 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?"
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- by Tim O'Reilly; title: How this book came about --; title: Powerful ideas dealt with in the book -- -- I.; title: The physical world.; title: Quantum physics takes free will into account  -- Ignacio Cirac; title: Unifying particle physics with the cosmology of the primordial universe  -- José Bernabéu; title: For exoplanets, anything is possible  -- Sara Seager; title: From Casimir forces to black-body radiation : quantum and thermal fluctuations  -- Alejandro W. Rodriguez; title: The challenge of climate change  -- Mario J. Molina; title: Graphene and its "family" : the finest materials ever to exist  -- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero; title: The laws of thermodynamics tell you what is and what is not possible  -- Avelina Corma; title: Wisdom hewn in ancient stones  -- John Ochsendorf; title: Galileo programme : planning uncertainty and imagining the possible and the impossible  -- Javier Benedicto; title: Looking forward in architecture by looking back  -- Yung Ho Chang; title: The seamless coupling of bits and atoms -- Hiroshi Ishii.; title: II.; title: Information.; title: Convergence culture : where old and new media collide  -- Henry Jenkins; title: The logic of physics versus the logic of computer science  -- Bebo White; title: The pillars of MIT : innovation, radical meritocracy, and open knowledge  -- Hal Abelson; title: We need algorithms that can make explicit what is implicit  -- Bernardo Cuenca Grau; title: The emergence of a nonbiological intelligence  -- Michail Bietsas; title: Remembering our future : the frontier of search technologies  -- Ricardo Baeza-Yates; title: The challenge of the open dissemination of knowledge, distributed intelligence, and information technology  -- Anne Margulies; title: Technology is something to make the world a better place  -- Tim O'Reilly; title: Encryption as a human right  -- David Casacuberta; title: Order in cyberspace can only be maintained with a combination of ethics and technology  -- John Perry Barlow; title: The free software paradigm and the hacker ethic -- Richard Stallman.; title: III.; title: Intelligence.; title: "Affective computing" is not an oxymoron  -- Rosalind W. Picard; title: Mind, brain, and behavior  -- Alvaro Pascual-Leone; title: MIT collaborative innovation : it takes>2 to tango  -- Israel Ruiz; title: Mind over matter : brain-machine interfaces  -- Jose M. Carmena; title: We want robots to see and understand the world  -- Antonio Torralba; title: Between caves : from Plato to the brain through the Internet  -- Javier Echeverria; title: There will be no end of work  -- Paul Osterman; title: A smart mob is not necessarily a wise mob  -- Howard Rheingold; title: Measuring the intelligence of everything  -- José Hernández-Orallo; title: Touching the soul of Michelangelo  -- Gianluigi Colalucci -- IV.; title: Epilogue.; title: Geometry of a multidimensional universe : weightless art and the painting of the void -- José María Yturralde.