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Science and ultimate reality: quantum theory, cosmology, and complexity
Publisher
Cambridge
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
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PART I. AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER
John Archibald Wheeler and the clash of ides / Paul C.W. Davies
PART II. AN HISTORIAN'S TRIBUTE TO JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER AND SCIENTIFIC SPECULATION THROUGHT THE AGES
The heritage of Heraclitus: John Archiblad Wheeler and the itch to speculate / Jaroslav Pelikan
PART III. QUANTUM REALITY: THEORY
Why is nature described by quantum theory? / Lucien Hardy
Thought-experiments in honor of John Archibald Wheeler / Freeman J. Dyson
It from qubit / David Deutsch
The wave function: it or bit? / H. Dieter Zeh
Quantum Darwinism and envariance / Wojciech H. Zurek
Using qubits to learn about "it" / Juan Pablo Paz
Quantum gravity as an ordinary gauge theory / Juan M. Maldacena
The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics / Bryce S. DeWitt
PART IV. QUANTUM REALITY: EXPERIMENT
Why the quantum? "It" from "bit"? A participatory universe? Three far-reaching challenges from John Archibald Wheeler and their relation to experiment / Anton Zeilinger
Speakable and unspeakable, past and future / Aephraim M. Steinberg
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: are there experimental consequences? / Raymond Y. Chiao
Breeding nonlocal Schrödinger cats: a thought-experiment to explore the quantum-classical boundary / Serge Haroche
Quantum erasing the nature of reality: or, perhaps, the reality of nature? / Paul G. Kwiat, Berthold-Georg Englert
Quantum erasing the nature of reality: or, perhaps, the reality of nature? / Paul G. Kwiat, Berthold-Georg Englert
Quantum feedback and the quantum-classical transition / Hideo Mabuchi
What quantum computers may tell us about quantum mechanics / Christopher R. Monroe
PART V. BIG QUESTIONS IN COSMOLOGY
Cosmic inflation and the arrow of time / Andreas Albrecht
Cosmology and immutability / John D. Barrow
Inflation, quantum cosmology, and the anthropic principle / Andrei Linde
Parallel universes / Max Tegmark
Quantum theories of gravity: results and prospects / Lee Smolin
A genuinely evolving universe / João Magueijo
Planck-scale models of the universe / Fotini Markopoulou
Implications of additional spatial dimensions for questions in cosmology / Lisa Randall
PART VI. EMERGENCE, LIFE, AND RELATED TOPICS
Emergence: us from it / Philip D. Clayton
True complexity and its associated ontology / George F.R. Ellis
The three origins: cosmos, life, and mind / Marcelo Gleiser
Autonomous agents / Stuart Kauffman
To see a world in a grain of sand / Shou-Cheng Zhang
Appendix A: Science and ultimate reality program committees
Appendix B: Young researchers competition in honor of John Archibald Wheeler for physics graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty.
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052183113
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