- Subjects
- Published
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[Cambridge, Massachusetts] :
The MIT Press
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Place of publication taken from the back cover.
- Physical Description
- xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780262536349
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Why Doesn't Our Universe Make Sense?
- Is Nature Unnatural?
- Alice And Bob Meet The Wall Of Fire
- Wormholes Untangle A Black Hole Paradox
- How Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time
- In A Multiverse, What Are The Odds?
- Multiverse Collisions May Dot The Sky
- How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
- II. What Is Quantum Reality, Really?
- A Jewel At The Heart Of Quantum Physics
- New Support For Alternative Quantum View
- Entanglement Made Simple
- Quantum Theory Rebuilt From Simple Physical Principles
- III. What Is Time?
- Time's Arrow Traces To Quantum Source
- Quantum Weirdness Now A Matter Of Time
- A Debate Over The Physics Of Time
- IV. What Is Life?
- A New Physics Theory Of Life
- How Life (And Death) Spring From Disorder
- In Newly Created Life-Form, A Major Mystery
- Break Through DNA Editor Born Of Bacteria
- New Letters Added To The Genetic Alphabet
- The Surprising Origins Of Life's Complexity
- Ancient Survivors Could Redefine Sex
- Did Neurons Evolve Twice?
- V. What Makes Us Human?
- How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
- New Evidence For The Necessity Of Loneliness
- How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity
- The Neuroscience Behind Bad Decisions
- Infant Brains Reveal How The Mind Gets Built
- VI. How Do Machines Learn?
- Is Alphago Really Such A Big Deal?
- New Theory Cracks Open The Black Box Of Deep Learning
- A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can Learn
- Clever Machines Learn How To Be Curious
- VII. How Will We Learn More?
- Gravitational Waves Discovered At Long Last
- Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story Of Stars
- Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time And Lights Up The Sky
- VIII. Where Do We Go From Here?
- What No New Particles Means For Physics
- To Solve The Biggest Mystery In Physics. Join Two Kinds Of Law
- The Strange Second Life Of String Theory
- A Fight For The Soul Of Science
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Notes
- Index