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The Infinity Puzzle

Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465028030

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Many mysteries of the atom have came unraveled, but one remains intractable- what Frank Close calls the "Infinity puzzle'. The problem was simple to describe. Although clearly very powerful, quantum field theory was making one utterly ridiculous prediction: that certain events had an infinite probability of occurring. The Infinity Puzzle charts the birth and life of the idea, and the scientists, who realized it. Based on numerous firsthand interviews and extensive research, this book captures an era of great mystery and greater discovery. Even if the Higgs boson is never found, renormalization- the pursuit of an orderly universe- has led to one of the richest and most productive intellectual periods in human history.--[book jacket]

The Infinity Puzzle

Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199593507

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"Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense-its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to "renormalize" field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it"--

The Infinity Puzzle

Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191628009

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We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometre-long machine that cost ten billion dollars, took twenty years to build, and finally discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken were the three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets. Written by Frank Close, the eminent physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws upon the author's close friendships with those involved. In July 2012, in the days leading up to the momentous announcement that the Higgs boson had indeed been discovered, Frank Close and Peter Higgs were together at a conference in Sicily. In this paperback edition, Close includes a substantial epilogue reflecting on the announcement, its implications, and the impact on Peter Higgs and others.

The Infinity Puzzle

Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307399823

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With the mind of a scientist and the skill of a journalist, bestselling author and renowned physicist Frank Close gives us an insider's look at one of the most inspiring--and challenging--scientific breakthroughs of our time: the Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs boson-like particle was discovered. Now updated with a new afterword. About 40 years ago, 3 brilliant yet little-known scientists made discoveries that later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27-kilometre-long machine which has already cost $10 billion, taken 20 years to build and promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those 40 years of research, breakthrough and endeavour. The work of Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken is explored here, played out against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour and billion-dollar budgets. Eminent physicist and award-winning author Frank Close writes from within the action and draws upon his close friendships with those involved.

The Infinity Puzzle

Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : Frank Close
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199673308

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Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.

The Infinity Puzzle

F. E. Close,Senior Principal Scientist Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle Book PDF

Author : F. E. Close,Senior Principal Scientist Frank Close
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
ISBN : 0307399818

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The Infinity Puzzle by F. E. Close,Senior Principal Scientist Frank Close Pdf

"Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense-its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to "renormalize" field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it"--Provided by publisher.

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

Raymond M. Smullyan
Satan Cantor And Infinity And Other Mind bogglin Book PDF

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780307819826

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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

USA TODAY Up & Down Words Infinity

U. S. A. USA TODAY,USA Today
USA TODAY Up Down Words Infinity Book PDF

Author : U. S. A. USA TODAY,USA Today
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781449410018

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USA TODAY Up & Down Words Infinity by U. S. A. USA TODAY,USA Today Pdf

USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is a new puzzle book concept based on the hit puzzle featured each day in USA TODAY. In Up and Down Words Infinity, the second half of an answer becomes the first half of the next answer. Once started, Up and Down Words Infinity don't stop. The last half of the answer on the bottom of a page becomes the first half of the next answer on the following page. The book becomes one connected puzzle that can be played in sections. Solvers can work forward or backward from anywhere in the book. Packaged in a compact 4 x 6 trim size, USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is the perfect puzzle book for the commute or the waiting room. The book fits easily into any size bag or briefcase.

The Gödelian Puzzle Book

Raymond M. Smullyan
The G delian Puzzle Book Book PDF

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486315775

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These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.

Infinity

Jus Accardo
Infinity Book PDF

Author : Jus Accardo
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781633754966

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There are three things Kori knows for sure about her life: One: Her army general dad is insanely overprotective. Two: The guy he sent to watch her, Cade, is way too good-looking. Three: Everything she knew was a lie. Now there are three things Kori never knew about her life: One: There’s a device that allows her to jump dimensions. Two: Cade’s got a lethal secret. Three: Someone wants her dead. The Infinity Division series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Infinity Book #2 Omega Book #3 Alpha

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity Book PDF

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141969695

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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman

From Here to Infinity

Ian Stewart
From Here to Infinity Book PDF

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780192832023

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A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problem of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest discoveries, including Andrew Wile's amazing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the newest advances in knot theory, the Four Colour Theorem, Chaos Theory, and fake four-dimensial spaces. See how simple concepts from probability theory shed light on the National Lottery and tell you how to maximize your winnings. Discover howinfinitesimals become respectable, why there are different kinds of infinity, and how to square the circle with the mathematical equivalent of a pair of scissors.

Infinity and Me

Kate Hosford
Infinity and Me Book PDF

Author : Kate Hosford
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467737913

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When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.

Codex Enigmatum

Rami Hansenne
Codex Enigmatum Book PDF

Author : Rami Hansenne
Publisher : Innovario
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789463960236

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Codex Enigmatum by Rami Hansenne Pdf

Codex Enigmatum is a richly illustrated puzzle book, filled with a diverse mix of unique and interrelated brain teasers, riddles and conundrums. It features many one-of-a-kind escape room type puzzles designed specifically for this book, as well as unconventional twists on well-known puzzle genres. Each puzzle solution yields a key to unlock future puzzles and in order to unlock the secrets of the codex, you will need to quest your way through over 60 varied and eccentric enigmas requiring a combination of lateral thinking, logical deduction, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition. Are you up to the challenge?

The Infinity Concerto

Greg Bear
The Infinity Concerto Book PDF

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497607743

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The Infinity Concerto by Greg Bear Pdf

Music, myth, and magic mix in this tale of a melody not meant for human ears, from the New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author of Darwin’s Radio. Michael Perrin is an aspiring poet, struggling to express the chaotic cadences of his thoughts on paper. He finds a kindred spirit in Arno Waltiri, the film score composer behind several of Michael’s favorite classic movies. The maestro’s greatest piece, however, was performed in front of a live audience only once. The concerto Opus 45, Infinity left its listeners entranced, altered to the very core of their souls. Waltiri’s composition is a song of power. Never meant to be heard by human ears, its melody is as captivating as a siren’s call, its notes ring out like a death knell, and its rhythms shake the very foundations of reality. The music’s otherworldly tones have led Michael through the gate between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic—and where Michael must find his muse if he’s ever to return home. The Infinity Concerto is a fantasy masterpiece by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Forerunner Saga, Eon, and other imaginative classics.