The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed - A Conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed
By Howard Burton
Length2h 14m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nima Arkani-Hamed, faculty member at the renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Nima Arkani-Hamed is one of today's leading particle physicists. In this extensive Ideas Roadshow conversation Nima discusses how we discover the laws of nature, the “scientific method”, the relation between theory and experiment and how we can push our understanding well beyond where experiments can currently reach. With his unbridled enthusiasm and engaging eloquence, Nima takes us inside the world of a working theoretical physicist, sharing his frustration at some of the ways that physics is communicated to the general public while revealing how he and his colleagues hope to be steered towards the truth without experiment to guide them.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Beyond Nymphs, Dryads and Leprechauns, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Physics Time Management - Giving it your all
II. The Problem with Popularization - Not what it used to be
III. In Feynman's Footsteps - A genuine challenge
IV. Describing Reality - The latest thing vs. the eternally significant
V. A Timeless Community - Walking with Galileo, aided by Weinberg
VI. Against Relativism - Science, culture, and truth with a capital “T”
VII. Strongly Constrained - The effect of VIII. combining relativity and quantum mechanics
VIII. In Search of a Formula - Predicting clicks and theoretical candidates
IX. A Principled Example - The inevitability of the Higgs
X. Supersymmetry - Platonic convictions
XI. Reacting Precipitously - The sad tale of the supposedly superluminal neutrinos
XII. Tangled Pillars - The relationship between relativity and quantum theory
XIII. The Pull of the Truth - Plunging in, in the right vicinity
XIV. Choosing a Better Description - Thinking your way into the future
XV. Beyond Space-Time - Mathematics to the rescue?
About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series
This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert in a focused yetinformal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. For other books in this series visit our website: https://ideasroadshow.com/.
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GenreScience and Nature
Length2 hrs 14 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11VII. Strongly Constrained
2A Note on the Text
12VIII. In Search of a Formula
3Introduction
13IX. A Principled Example
4The Conversation
14X. Supersymmetry
5I. Physics Time Management
15XI. Reacting Precipitously
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6II. The Problem with Popularization
16XII. Tangled Pillars
7III. In Feynman’s Footsteps
17XIII. The Pull of the Truth
8IV. Describing Reality
18XIV. Choosing a Better Description
9V. A Timeless Community
19XV. Beyond Space-Time
10VI. Against Relativism
20Continuing the Conversation
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