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This is the famous metric tensor,
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
His eventual breakthrough was to realize that spacetime could be dynamic and curved, and the effects of that curvature are what you and I experience as “gravity.”
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Physicist Brian Greene sums it up well: “Common experience—mundane, ordinary, day-to-day activities” are “part of a classical charade, hiding the true nature of our quantum world.” Our everyday world is “nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing
... See moreMark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics: The complete guide to quantum physics, including wave functions, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and quantum gravity
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One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
