Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of the widely acclaimed Beyond Einstein and a leading theoretical physicist, offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics, work which includes research on the tenth dimension, time warps, black holes, and multiple universes. The theory of hyperspace (or higher dimensional space) - and its newest wrinkle, superstring theory - stand at the center of this revolution, with adherents in every major research laboratory in the world, including several Nobel laureates. Beginning where Hawking's Brief History of Time left off, Kaku paints a vivid portrayal of the breakthroughs now rocking the physics establishment. Why all the excitement? As the author points out, for over half a century, scientists have puzzled over why the basic forces of the cosmos - gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces - require markedly different mathematical descriptions. But if we see these forces as vibrations in a higher dimensional space, their field equations suddenly fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, perfectly snug, in an elegant, astonishingly simple form. This may thus be our leading candidate for the Theory of Everything. If so, it would be the crowning achievement of 2,000 years of scientific investigation into matter and itsforces. Already, the theory has inspired several thousand research papers, and has been the focus of over 200 international conferences. Many leading scientists believe the theory will unlock the deepest secrets of creation and answer some of the most intriguing questions of all
加来道雄,美籍日裔物理学家,纽约市立大学城市学院理论物理学教授。他毕业于哈佛大学,而后获得加州大学伯克利分校哲学博士学位。他是《超越爱因斯坦》(与特雷纳合著)、《量子场论》和《超弦导论》诸书的作者,还曾担任广播电台每周一次一小时科学节目的主持人。
此书梳理了黎曼几何→相对论→量子力学→弦论,这条近一百年的物理学逼近我们世界真相的道路,特别是几何空间→微观粒子→高维几何空间,这样一个在高维中将自然规律简化的曲折发展历程。 此书的优点在于,作者多年浸淫在现代物理的奇妙世界中,对主要理论的来龙去脉都异常清晰...
评分这本书的作者加来道雄是一位很出名的理论物理学家,貌似曾获过诺贝尔奖,钻研在高维度空间领域,或者说是弦理论领域。 他在书里写到,我们这些生活在地球上的人类或许一开始并不知道为什么会出现春夏秋冬四季变化的现象,可能会误以为有某种神秘的自然力在操控着季节...
评分当代物理学的发展历史可以概括为两大趋势和力量,第一股力量,即物理学渐渐由可以感知的世界发展到不可以感知的世界,从可以感知的变量发展为不可感知的变量。以光的传播为例,先前物理学家认定光是一种波,但是波的传播需要介质,于是物理学家假定有一种看不见的“以太”存在...
评分几年前因为东方秘封组的关系忽然对“超弦理论”有了兴趣 阐述弦理论最好的著作当然是B.格林写的《宇宙的琴弦》 某位数学狂人跟我说这位格林是当代数学最好的物理学家同时也是物理最好的数学家 虽说《宇宙的琴弦》定位就是科普读物 但还是要有一些数理基础才能看得懂的 而这本加...
评分极其优秀的科普著作。三体只不过是这本书的小说化的改写。二十年后中国才翻译这本书,太晚了。 p9 从树木和山脉到恒星本身,只不过是超空间中的振动。平行宇宙中的蛀洞或者管道网的可能性是存在的。 p3 我想知道上帝怎样创造了这个世界,对这样或那样的具体现象我不太感兴趣。...
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