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Sean Carroll 出版社: Penguin Group (USA) 副标题: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time 出版年: 2010-1-7 页数: 448 定价: GBP 21.18 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780525951339
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?
Time moves forward, not backward梕veryone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the univers...
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?
Time moves forward, not backward梕veryone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself梐 period modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child's play. Carroll's scenario is not only elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to- understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.
From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It's an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.
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Sean Carroll, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he pursued his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He has published papers on dark matter and dark energy, the physics of extra ...
Sean Carroll, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he pursued his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He has published papers on dark matter and dark energy, the physics of extra dimensions, and alternative theories of gravity as well as the graduate-level textbook Spacetime and Geometry. Sean Carroll is one of the founders of the group blog cosmicvariance.com, named one of the five top science blogs by Nature.
"A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the law of entropy. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: "Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?" – C.P. Snow (查看原文)
作者肖恩·卡罗尔是加州理工学院的理论物理学家,英文名Sean Michael Carroll,生于1966年10月05日。《大图景》《寻找希格斯粒子》《隐藏的宇宙》以及本书的作者。还有一位肖恩·卡罗尔是Sean B. Carroll,是美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校分子生物学和遗传学教授,《生命的法则》...
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一 什么是时间?关于这个问题,我们总是要从奥古斯丁开始。他说: What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. 这就是我们的切身体验。人人都在谈论时间,但是迄今为止无人能定义时间。原因不难想到:...
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看到有很多人说这本书废话连篇,可以删减到200页……我只能说,对于任何一个要挑战“定理”的人而言,谨慎而小心翼翼是非常必要的。 From Eternity to Here:The Quest For The Ultimate Theory of Time这本书,看似是谈时间,实则谈论熵的内核。Sean开篇就提到时间三段论并毫...
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看到有很多人说这本书废话连篇,可以删减到200页,对此报之一句:对于任何一个要挑战“定理”的人而言,谨慎而小心翼翼是非常必要的。 From Eternity to Here:The Quest For The Ultimate Theory of Time这本书,看似是谈时间,实则谈论熵的内核。Sean开篇就提到时间三段论并...
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0 有用 蝉 2014-01-10 14:25:24
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0 有用 太空猫 2010-12-26 10:49:30
一本挺不错的以熵和时间箭头为主题的宇宙学科普书。。。。。
0 有用 eapass 2014-06-07 11:03:45
特别喜欢书名——“From Eternity to Here”
0 有用 ◾️ 2021-10-14 14:25:54
将前沿物理引下神坛到人群中去……几乎是对所有关于时间的现有理论体系、探索时间的历程和未来展望的集大成之综述,诙谐干练,举重若轻,卡罗尔真是很了不起的科普家
0 有用 洞察与沉思 2025-01-29 23:46:28 湖北
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