Wild and Not So Wild Dreams in Physics - Hardcover

Holger Bech Nielsen; Henrik Georg Bohr

9788750210382: Wild and Not So Wild Dreams in Physics

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8750210386 ISBN 13: 9788750210382

Publisher: Polyteknisk Boghandel og Forlag, 2014

Holger Bech Nielsen and Henrik Georg Bohr engage in the kind of research that lies on the boundaries of both what we do and do not know, and what we can and cannot know over a longer time horizon.

The authors rethink the world of physics and give their wildest ideas and theories to the reader, while trying to address the following:

Is there an anti-gravitational force?

Are there both black and white holes in the universe?

What are dark matter and dark energy?

Can we go back in time through a wormhole? Did everything come from nothing?

Is personality the result of our genetic derivation combined with our neural networks?

What does protein-folding mean for life processes?

Are we about to understand everything, or is everything too relative to be pinned down? Indeed, what is the truth? Wild and not so Wild Dreams in Physics explores these questions.

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Product Description:

The authors rethink the world of physics and give their wildest ideas and theories to the reader and try to answer these questions:What about the postulated symmetry? Is there, for instance, an anti-gravitational force? Are there both black and white holes in the universe? What are dark matter and dark energy? Can we go back in time through a wormhole? Did everything come from nothing? Is personality the result of our genetic derivation combined with our neural networks? What does protein-folding mean for life processes? Are we about to understand everything, or is everything too relative to be pinned down? Indeed, what is the truth?

About the Author:

Holger Bech Nielsen was born in 1941 and is professor emeritus in theoretical high-energy physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University. He is internationally acclaimed for his scientific work and in 2001 received the Humboldt award.

Henrik Georg Bohr was born in 1951. He is professor in physics and leader of the Quantum Protein Center at the Danish Technical University. Has launched several international research projects and is author of several hundred scientific articles.

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