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Un universo diverso

Reinventare la fisica da cima a fondo

By Robert Laughlin, S. Orrao (Translator)

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| Others | 9788875780333

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Occorre reinventare la fisica da capo a piedi. Lo spiega il Premio NobelRobert Laughlin in un libro che propone un nuovo approccio alle regolefondamentali che governano tutte le cose. Un testo che parte da un presuppostoessenziale: analizzare le cose troppo da vicino porta a smarrire la visioned'insContinue

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A paramount example of the books I would really have understood and loved when I knew more physics.
Still, a very fascinating book on how physics of collective systems of very many components (vacuum, gases, liquids, solid state, electronics, lasers, super- and semiconductors, etc.) strongly ... (continue)

A paramount example of the books I would really have understood and loved when I knew more physics.
Still, a very fascinating book on how physics of collective systems of very many components (vacuum, gases, liquids, solid state, electronics, lasers, super- and semiconductors, etc.) strongly point today to the need to rethink physics and fully bury a reductionistic approach.
Engineers, physicists and popular science enthusiasts, especially if familiar with the key experiments in measuring collective properties this book refers to, will love this critique of how most of us still view hard science in a reductionist way that these experiments appear to have been falsifying for decades now, and how much of the reductionistically-minded theories of the last few decades, from superstrings to fundamental particles, appear to end up building structures that defy falsification.
The last few chapters describe how reductionism and these theories have supported evolution of fundamental science into technology business that also is based less and less on falsifiable statements - and how this has signifiant impact on the ideology science ends up supporting.
As stimulating as it is complex to follow.

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