Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics Is Live!
The paper back version of Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics, is live! Kindle and audiobooks are forthcoming.
The paper back version of Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics, is live! Kindle and audiobooks are forthcoming.
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If we really do live in a quantum multiverse, then where does gravity fit into that picture? How does quantum theory solve the problem of time? How can the world be truly local, despite quantum theory’s notorious and bizarre properties? Can we ever settle the debate over whether entropy is subjective or objective? What is the relationship between probability and fundamental reality?
Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics consists of essays by physicists who explore and answer questions such as these. Drawing from their own careers as researchers, contributors to this entry in our Bold Conjectures series either explain cutting-edge developments in physics that most people are not yet aware of, or they clarify a key idea that popular culture tends to get wrong.
In this compendium, you’ll also read about novel ways by which we may test for quantum effects in biology, the history of string theory, the philosophy of effective realism, a new way to test the nature of gravity, and what constructor theory of theory may tell us about how to bring together general relativity and quantum theory.
Each essay may be read independently of the others, though often you will discover that ideas in one essay reinforce those in another. Like the human project that is science itself, Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics has no singular starting point or end point but rather consists of a collection of explanations, advancements, and open problems that the reader is encouraged to explore as he or she sees fit.
What You’ll Find in Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics
1. The Fate of Spacetime: What Many Worlds Means for Gravity, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Sam Kuypers
2. Controversial Coffee: Is Entropy Subjective? by Conjecture Institute Fellow Maria Violaris
3. Can Quantum Mechanics under the Copenhagen Interpretation Be Experimentally Tested? by Conjecture Institute Fellow Maria Violaris
4. Another Triumph of Locality: Colliding Histories Skew Handshakes, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Charles Bedard
5. Sherlock Photon: A Quantum Witness to Non-Classicality in Biology, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Giuseppe Di Pietra
6. Quantum Physics and General Relativity as Superinformation, by Conjecture Institute Senior Scientists Chiara Marletto & Vlatko Vedral
7. Towards the First Tests of the Nature of Gravity, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Antonia Weber
8. Beyond Elegance: String Theory and the Seduction of Mathematical Elegance, by Aditya Varna Iyer
9. The Quantum Solution to an Ancient Problem, by Simone Rijavec
10. Why We Can’t Understand Probability without Many-Worlds Quantum Theory, by David Wallace
11. Thermodynamic Witnesses of Entanglement: A New Way to Probe the Quantum World, by Mia Stamatova
12. Effective Field Theory and the Shape of Realism, by Abdullah Afzal & Hassaan Saleem
13. Gravity without Absolutes, by Julian Barbour
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