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Once Before Time

A Whole Story of the Universe

By: Martin Bojowald

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Once Before Time

A Whole Story of the Universe

By: Martin Bojowald

In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos, Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which describes our universe as an eternal series of expansions and contractions, with no beginning and no end. In 2000, Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old postdoctoral student at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity—a cunning combination of Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics—to create a simple model of the universe. Loop quantum cosmology, or LQC, was born, and with it, a theory that managed to do something even Einstein’s general theory of relativity had failed to do—illuminate the very birth of the universe.

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Vintage

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0307474550

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The Universe

A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity

By: Martin Bojowald

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The Universe

A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity

By: Martin Bojowald

Written by a well-known author in the field, this book presents a modern understanding of the universe based on relativity, quantum physics and their elusive combination. It introduces the crucial theoretical ingredients in an accessible way, starting from the physics of Newton and developing subsequent theories all the way to the modern enigma of quantum gravity. The intermediate level presentation assumes only a general knowledge of math and physics, adopting a "two-level" approach: equations are retained throughout the chapters but set apart from the main text in boxes to allow for lay readers to understand the book. For scientists, researchers, students and lecturers in cosmology, astronomy, gravitation, quantum and theoretical physics; as well as mathematicians, students, lecturers, academics and non-experts in related fields with an interest in the subject.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527667687

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Quantum Cosmology

A Fundamental Description of the Universe

By: Martin Bojowald

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Quantum Cosmology

A Fundamental Description of the Universe

By: Martin Bojowald

Consequences of quantum gravity on grander scales are expected to be enormous: only such a theory can show how black holes really behave and where our universe came from. Applications of loop quantum gravity to cosmology have especially by now shed much light on cosmic evolution of a universe in a fundamental, microscopic description. Modern techniques are explained in this book which demonstrate how the universe could have come from a non-singular phase before the big bang, how equations for the evolution of structure can be derived, but also what fundamental limitations remain to our knowledge of the universe before the big bang. The following topics will be covered in this book: Hamiltonian cosmology: a general basic treatment of isotropy, perturbations and their role for observations; useful in general cosmology. Effective equations: an efficient way to evaluate equations of quantum gravity, which is also useful in other areas of physics where quantum theory is involved. Loop quantization: a new formalism for the atomic picture of space-time; usually presented at a sophisticated mathematical level, but evaluated here from an intuitive physical side. The book will start with physical motivations, rather than mathematical developments which is more common in other expositions of this field. All the required mathematical methods will be presented, but will not distract the reader from seeing the underlying physics. Simple but representative models will be presented first to show the basic features, which are then used to work upwards to a general description of quantum gravity and its applications in cosmology. This will make the book accessible to a more general physics readership.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1441982752

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Once Before Time

A Whole Story of the Universe

By: Martin Bojowald

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A Whole Story of the Universe

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The Universe

A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity

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A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Quantum Cosmology

A Fundamental Description of the Universe

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A Fundamental Description of the Universe

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Canonical Gravity and Applications

Cosmology, Black Holes, and Quantum Gravity

By: Martin Bojowald

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Canonical Gravity and Applications

Cosmology, Black Holes, and Quantum Gravity

By: Martin Bojowald

Canonical methods are a powerful mathematical tool within the field of gravitational research, both theoretical and experimental, and have contributed to a number of recent developments in physics. Providing mathematical foundations as well as physical applications, this is the first systematic explanation of canonical methods in gravity. The book discusses the mathematical and geometrical notions underlying canonical tools, highlighting their applications in all aspects of gravitational research from advanced mathematical foundations to modern applications in cosmology and black hole physics. The main canonical formulations, including the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism and Ashtekar variables, are derived and discussed. Ideal for both graduate students and researchers, this book provides a link between standard introductions to general relativity and advanced expositions of black hole physics, theoretical cosmology or quantum gravity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139494139

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Beware Invisible Cows

My Search for the Soul of the Universe

By: Andy Martin

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Beware Invisible Cows

My Search for the Soul of the Universe

By: Andy Martin

What really happened at the moment of the Big Bang? And how the hell do we know? And why is finding out so important? And who are these people who design and build these experiments? And is it all worth it? Andy Martin sets out on a road trip to search for the soul of the universe. In his personal quest for the mother of all truths, he has to go all the way back to the origin of time and space. He climbs up to the highest observatory in the world and sticks his head inside a 4 km-long laser tube capable of surfing waves from the Big Bang. He sees himself the way he used to be in a mirror and he discovers where you go when you die. He has close encounters with aliens and intimations of immortality. This book has everything -- science, philosophy, literature, religion, Einstein, Weinstein, God, the Godfather, all seen through a glass darkly.

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Simon and Schuster

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1849835853

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Chaos Imagined

Literature, Art, Science

By: Martin Meisel

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Chaos Imagined

Literature, Art, Science

By: Martin Meisel

The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passion, excitement, and compromises the act provokes. Meisel builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos. He uses examples from literature, philosophy, painting, graphic art, science, linguistics, music, and film, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. Discussions of Sophocles, Plato, Lucretius, Calderon, Milton, Haydn, Blake, Faraday, Chekhov, Faulkner, Wells, and Beckett, among others, are matched with incisive readings of art by Brueghel, Rubens, Goya, Turner, Dix, Dada, and the futurists. Meisel addresses the revolution in mapping energy and entropy and the manifold effect of thermodynamics. He then uses this chaotic frame to elaborate on purpose, mortality, meaning, and mind.

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Columbia University Press

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0231540469

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9780231540469

The Letters of Martin Buber

By: Martin Buber

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The Letters of Martin Buber

By: Martin Buber

Edited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr “No matter how brilliant it may be, the human intellect that wishes to keep to a plane above the events of the day is not really alive,” wrote Martin Buber in 1932. The correspondence of Martin Buber reveals a personality passionately involved in all the cultural and political events of his day. Drawn from the three-volume German edition of his correspondence, this collection includes letters both to and from the leading personalities of his day—Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer, Hemann Hesse, Franz Kafka, and Stefan Zweig, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, S.Y. Agnon, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Rosenzweig. These exchanges capture the dynamics of seven decades of lived history, reflected through the eyes of a man who was the conscience of his generation. One of the leading spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century, Buber is best known for his work of religious existentialism, I and Thou. A prime mover in the German-Jewish renaissance of the 1920s, he taught comparative religion and Jewish ethics at the University of Frankfurt. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938, Buber made his home in Jerusalem, where he taught social philosophy at the Hebrew University. As resident sage of Jerusalem, he developed an international reputation and following, and carried on a vigorous correspondence on social, political, and religious issues until the end of his life. Included in this collection are Buber’s exchanges with many Americans in the latter part of his life: Will Herberg, Walter Kaufmann, Maurice Friedman, Malcolm Diamond, and other individuals who sought his advice and guidance. In the voices of these letters, a full-blooded portrait emerges of a towering intellect ever striving to live up to philosophy of social engagement.

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Schocken

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0804150133

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9780804150132

The Martin Buber Reader

Essential Writings

By: A. Biemann

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The Martin Buber Reader

Essential Writings

By: A. Biemann

Martin Buber was professor of the history of religions and Jewish religion & ethics from 1923 to 1933 at the University of Frankfurt. He resigned in 1933, after Hitler came to power, and immigrated to Israel where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Buber wrote numerous books during his lifetime (1878-1965) and is best known for I and Thou and Good and Evil. His philosophy of dialogue-that is, the 'I-Thou' relationship which affirms each individual as being of unique value-is extremely well-known and has influenced important Protestant theologians like Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Niebuhr. There is truly no genuine understanding of contemporary Jewish and Christian theology without reference to Martin Buber. His appeal is vast - not only is he renowned for his translations of the Old Testament but also for his interpretation of Hasidism, his role in Zionism, and his writings in both psychotherapy and political philosophy.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312292902

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9780312292904

The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue

A New Transcript With Commentary

By: Martin Buber,Professor Kenneth N Cissna,Carl Ransom Rogers,Rob Anderson,Kenneth N. Cissna

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The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue

A New Transcript With Commentary

By: Martin Buber,Professor Kenneth N Cissna,Carl Ransom Rogers,Rob Anderson,Kenneth N. Cissna

A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.

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SUNY Press

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0791434370

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9780791434376

I And Thou

By: Martin Buber

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I And Thou

By: Martin Buber

A modern translation clarifying the philosophical implications and use of words in the classic work of the Jewish religious scholar.

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160

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Simon and Schuster

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0684717255

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9780684717258

Martin Buber in a Pentastich Light

By: Martin Wasserman

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Martin Buber in a Pentastich Light

By: Martin Wasserman

Martin Buber, during his lifetime, often asserted that he had no doctrine to teach but likened his efforts to taking persons to a window and asking them to look outside, both broadly and deeply, so that they might again discover what they had once intuitively known about the mysterious world outside but had long since forgotten. It was by combining this Buberian emphasis on a sense of wonder with an equally strong desire on the part of Buber that some wisdom should be acquired from his writings which ultimately gave me a suitable framework for putting down on paper the collection of pentastichs that now follows.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796051691

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9781796051698

Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy

Essays, Letters, and Dialogue

By: Martin Buber

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Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy

Essays, Letters, and Dialogue

By: Martin Buber

Buber (1878-1965) is best known as a philosopher, but was also very interested in psychology and psychotherapy, and in fact has influenced many leading therapists. Here are some of his seminal works in the area, including nine essays; correspondence with Hans Trub, Hermann Menachem Gerson, Ludwig Binswanger, Robert C. Smkith, C. G. Jung, and others; and transcripts of a panel discussion and a dialogue with Carl Rogers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Book's by Martin Bojowald

Once Before Time

Once Before Time

The Universe

The Universe

Quantum Cosmology

Quantum Cosmology

Once Before Time

Once Before Time

The Universe

The Universe

Quantum Cosmology

Quantum Cosmology

Canonical Gravity and Applications

Canonical Gravity and Applications

Beware Invisible Cows

Beware Invisible Cows

Chaos Imagined

Chaos Imagined

The Letters of Martin Buber

The Letters of Martin Buber

The Martin Buber Reader

The Martin Buber Reader

The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue

The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue

I And Thou

I And Thou

Martin Buber in a Pentastich Light

Martin Buber in a Pentastich Light

Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy

Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy

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