Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: donuts, spacetime
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0759285896
ISBN-13: 9780759285897

he birth of cyberpunk! A seaweed-smoking rebel becomes an incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the top--and the power to smash the Machine. After humanity becomes inextricably linked to the computers, a heroic couple makes a scale-ship journey beneath the smallest particles and through the largest cosmic structures, seeking a perfect world.

Author: Harald Fritzsch
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: spacetime, curvature
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0231118201
ISBN-13: 9780231118200

The internationally renowned physicist Harald Fritzsch deftly explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by presenting an imaginary conversation among Newton, Einstein, and a fictitious contemporary particle physicist named Adrian Haller -the same device Fritzsch employed to great acclaim in his earlier book An Equation That Changed the World, which focused on the special theory of relativity. Einstein´s theory of gravitation, his general theory of relativity, touches on basic questions of our existence. Matter, a

Author: Yuri Balashov
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: spacetime, persistence
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-06-25
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 019957992X
ISBN-13: 9780199579921

Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being "wholly present" at all moments of time at which they exist? Or do they persist by having distinct "temporal segments" confined to the corresponding times? Are objects three-dimensional entities extended in space, but not in time? Or are they four-dimensional spacetime "worms"? These are matters of intense debate, which is now driven by concerns about two major issues in fundamental ontology: parthood and location. It is in this contex

Author: S. A. Selesnick
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: spacetime, logic, quanta
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2003-12
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 9812386912
ISBN-13: 9789812386915

In this expanded edition of Quanta, Logic and Spacetime, the logical base is greatly broadened and quantum-computational aspects of the approach are brought to the fore. The first two parts of this edition may indeed be regarded as providing a self-contained and logic-based foundation for — and an introduction to — the enterprise known as quantum computing. The rest of the work takes on the task (as in the first edition) of computing from first principles certain dynamical expressions which turn out to compare favorably with the Lagrangian densities of the (massless) Standard Model, inc

Author: James J. Callahan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: spacetime, geometry
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1999-12-17
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0387986413
ISBN-13: 9780387986418

In 1905, Albert Einstein offered a revolutionary theory--special relativity--to explain some of the most troubling problems in current physics concerning electromagnetism and motion. Soon afterwards, Hermann Minkowski recast special relativity essentially as a new geometric structure for spacetime. These ideas are the subject of the first part of the book. The second part develops the main implications of Einstein’s general relativity as a theory of gravity rooted in the differential geometry of surfaces. The author explores the way an individual observer views the world and how a pair o

Author: Lawrence Sklar
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: spacetime, time, space
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1977-03-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520031741
ISBN-13: 9780520031746

In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time--problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics.The overall issues explored are our knowledge of the geometry of the world, the existence of spacetime as an entity over and above the material objects of the world, the relation between temporal order and causal order, and the problem of the direction of time. Without neglecting the most subtle philosophical points or the most advanced contribution

Author: Steve Adams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: physics, spacetime, introduction, relativity
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1997-09-29
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0748406212
ISBN-13: 9780748406210

Richly illustrated, this introductory text develops the ideas of basic physics and mathematics to introduce the essential principles and results of special relativity. A geometric interpretation of space-time is used so that the general theory is seen as a natural extension of the special theory. Although most results are derived from first principles, complex mathematics is avoided, and all mathematical steps and formulas are fully explained and interpretated. Student guides allow for alternative routes of study, and summaries, worked examples, and exercises are provided to enhance the stu