The Universe in the Rearview Mirror by Goldberg, Dave -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Epigraph Introduction Chapter 1: Antimatter

NEVER MIND ANTI-PEOPLE, WHERE DID I COME FROM? HOW DO YOU MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING? WHERE ARE ALL THE ANTI-PEOPLE? HOW MATTER AND ANTIMATTER ARE THE SAME . . . OR NOT PHYSICS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS MIRRORS AND ANTIMATTER

Chapter 2: Entropy

HOW SPACE AND TIME ARE THE SAME . . . OR NOT HOW MUCH HISTORY IS THERE? OKLO THE ARROW OF TIME THE SECOND LAW CAN WE CHEAT THE SECOND LAW? WHY DID THE UNIVERSE START OUT SO BORING?

Chapter 3: The Cosmological Principle

THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE UNIVERSE OR MULTIVERSE? Level 1 Multiverse: The Universe Is Big, But in a Normal Sort of Way Level 2 Multiverse: Different Universes with Different Physics Level 3 Multiverse: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics Level 4 Multiverse: If a Universe Is Mathematically Self-consistent, It Exists IS THE UNIVERSE JUST RIGHT FOR US? DYSON SPHERES AND AN INFINITE UNIVERSE THE INVERSE SQUARE LAW WHY ARE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OUR ONLY OPTIONS?

Chapter 4: Emmy Noether

EMMY NOETHER THREATENS TO OVERTHROW ALL ACADEMIC ORDER WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO . . . NOETHER’S THEOREM! FERMAT’S PRINCIPLE HOW TO BUILD A BETTER ROLLER COASTER THE UNIVERSE IS LAZY BACK TO NOETHER, AND WHAT HER THEOREM REALLY MEANS

Chapter 5: Relativity

WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE WE’RE AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE? THE AETHER AND THE OBLIGATORY MOCKING OF THE ANCIENTS HOW TO DESIGN A DEFLECTOR SHIELD HOW EINSTEIN FIXED GALILEO THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM WHAT DOES DISTANCE MEAN IN SPACE AND TIME? HOW TIME GETS STRETCHED WHY E = MC2 WHY YOU CAN’T HAVE AN ANSIBLE

Chapter 6: Gravity

THE TWIN PARADOX ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE LIFE IN ANTWORLD LIFE NEAR THE EVENT HORIZON RADIATION AND PERSPECTIVE SERIOUSLY, ARE BLACK HOLES REALLY BLACK?

Chapter 7: Replacement

HOW TO BUILD A TELEPORTER UNCERTAINTY AND SPIN ENTANGLEMENT PRACTICAL TELEPORTATION DESIGN WOULD ANYONE NOTICE?

Chapter 8: Spin

WHY SPIN IS NOT LIKE PLANETARY ROTATION NOT ALL PARTICLES SPIN THE SAME WAY DIRAC, ANTIMATTER, AND FERMIONS SYMMETRY AND ANTISYMMETRY WHY -1 IS SO IMPORTANT THE PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE WHITE DWARVES, NEUTRON STARS, AND DEGENERACY WHAT WOULD A TEASPOONFUL OF NEUTRON STAR DO TO YOU?

Chapter 9: Higgs

NOTHING IS (REALLY) REAL HOW CHARGE COMES FROM SYMMETRY WHY THE UNIVERSE NEEDS PHOTONS WHAT REALLY MAKES TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF PARTICLES? WHY DON’T ATOMS EXPLODE? WHAT’S SO SYMMETRIC? THE ELECTROWEAK FORCE AND BEYOND MASSES AND FIELDS SYMMETRY BREAKING HOW THE HIGGS MAKES MASS ARE WE QUITE CERTAIN THERE IS A HIGGS? WHICH MASS COMES FROM THE HIGGS AND WHICH DOESN’T

Chapter 10: Hidden Symmetries

MO PHYSICS, MO PROBLEMS WHY SOME SYMMETRIES BUT NOT OTHERS? HOW STRONG ARE THE FORCES? WHAT ARE THE MASSES (AND WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL)? HOW DOES GRAVITY WORK? WHAT ELSE IS MISSING? SYMMETRY BREAKING, REDUX LIFE AT LOW TEMPERATURE THE FIRST UNIFIED THEORIES WHEN EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME AN EXCEPTIONALLY SIMPLE THEORY OF EVERYTHING SUPERSYMMETRY BEYOND SYMMETRY

Roadside Attraction 1: The Particle Zoo Roadside Attraction 2: A Side Of Symmetries Further Reading Bibliography Acknowledgments Index