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Book Jingshin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta You Wu

Download or read book Jingshin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta You Wu written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof T-Y Wu is not only an eminent physicist with an encyclopedic knowledge, but also a motivational teacher and an influential policy maker in science and technology. The young Wu was inspired by Prof Y-T Yao, whose course on modern physics sparked an interest that burned during a long and productive career. Among Wu's achievements are 14 books and more than 120 papers covering subjects from atomic and molecular physics to plasmas and gases to atmospheric physics to relativity theory. Even at the age of 90 he remains active, publishing papers and lecturing on physics. Prof Wu feels grateful that he had the opportunity to educate a group of extremely talented students and, in particular, to discover T D Lee's remarkable talent. Although creative talent is no doubt a product of nature, it must also be nurtured. Prof Wu has played a crucial role for an entire generation of physicists in China and has won great respect from former students such as C N Yang, T D Lee, K Huang, and countless others. Prof Wu's love of physics and his dedication in teaching and research will always be remembered. Contents:The Scientific Research and Teaching of Ta-You Wu (J P Hsu)Scientific Publications of Ta-You Wu (Selected)Reminiscences of My Ann Arbor Days (Ta-You Wu)Comments After Professor Wu's Talk (C N Yang)Einstein's Impact on Theoretical Physics (C N Yang)Vibration of the Carbon-60 Molecule (T-T Chou & C N Yang)Effects of Heavy and Light Hole Mixing in Quantum Well Physics (K Huang)Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics (F-Y Wu)Leptonic Photon and Light Element Abundances (L B Okun)Covariant Model of Relativistic Extended Particles Based on the Oscillator Representation of the Poincaré Group (Y S Kim)Limiting Symmetry Principle, Universal Constants and Generalized Lorentz Transformations for Non-inertial Frames (J P Hsu & L Hsu) Readership: Graduate and post-graduate students in theoretical physics. Keywords:

Book JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta You Wu

Download or read book JingShin Theoretical Physics Symposium in Honor of Professor Ta You Wu written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof T-Y Wu is not only an eminent physicist with an encyclopedic knowledge, but also a motivational teacher and an influential policy maker in science and technology. The young Wu was inspired by Prof Y-T Yao, whose course on modern physics sparked an interest that burned during a long and productive career. Among Wu's achievements are 14 books and more than 120 papers covering subjects from atomic and molecular physics to plasmas and gases to atmospheric physics to relativity theory. Even at the age of 90 he remains active, publishing papers and lecturing on physics.Prof Wu feels grateful that he had the opportunity to educate a group of extremely talented students and, in particular, to discover T D Lee's remarkable talent. Although creative talent is no doubt a product of nature, it must also be nurtured. Prof Wu has played a crucial role for an entire generation of physicists in China and has won great respect from former students such as C N Yang, T D Lee, K Huang, and countless others. Prof Wu's love of physics and his dedication in teaching and research will always be remembered.

Book A Broader View of Relativity

Download or read book A Broader View of Relativity written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Broader View of Relativity shows that there is still new life in old physics. The book examines the historical context and theoretical underpinnings of Einstein''s theory of special relativity and describes Broad Relativity, a generalized theory of coordinate transformations between inertial reference frames that includes Einstein''s special relativity as a special case. It shows how the principle of relativity is compatible with multiple concepts of physical time and how these different procedures for clock synchronization can be useful for thinking about different physical problems, including many-body systems and the development of a Lorentz-invariant thermodynamics. Broad relativity also provides new answers to old questions such as the necessity of postulating the constancy of the speed of light and the viability of Reichenbach''s general concept of time. The book also draws on the idea of limiting-four-dimensional symmetry to describe coordinate transformations and the physics of particles and fields in non-inertial frames, particularly those with constant linear accelerations. This new edition expands the discussion on the role that human conventions and unit systems have played in the historical development of relativity theories and includes new results on the implications of broad relativity for clarifying the status of constants that are truly fundamental and inherent properties of our universe. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (326 KB). Contents: The Historical and Physical Context of Relativity Theory: Space, Time and Inertial Frames; On the Right Track: Voigt, Lorentz, and Larmor; The Novel Creation of the Young Einstein; A Broader View of Relativity: The Central Role of the Principle of Relativity: Relativity Based Solely on the Principle of Relativity; Experimental Tests I & II; Group Properties of Taiji Relativity and Common Relativity; Common Relativity and Quantum Mechanics; Extended Relativity: A Weaker Postulate for the Speed of Light; The Role of the Principle of Relativity in the Physics of Accelerated Frames: The Principle of Limiting Lorentz and Poincar(r) Invariance; Physical Properties of Spacetime in Accelerated Frames; Dynamics of Classical and Quantum Particles in Constant-Linear-Acceleration Frames; Group and Lie Algebra Properties of Accelerated Spacetime Transformations; Appendices: Systems of Units and the Development of Relativity Theories; Quantum Electrodynamics in Both Linearly Accelerated and Inertial Frames; and other papers. Readership: Researchers in the field of relativity theory and advanced undergraduate students as a supplementary text.

Book A Broader View of Relativity

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Book Space time  Yang mills Gravity  And Dynamics Of Cosmic Expansion  How Quantum Yang mills Gravity In The Super macroscopic Limit Leads To An Effective G  v t  And New Perspectives On Hubble s Law  The Cosmic Redshift And Dark Energy

Download or read book Space time Yang mills Gravity And Dynamics Of Cosmic Expansion How Quantum Yang mills Gravity In The Super macroscopic Limit Leads To An Effective G v t And New Perspectives On Hubble s Law The Cosmic Redshift And Dark Energy written by Jong-ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how one can combine Yang-Mills gauge symmetry and effective Einstein-Grossmann metric tensors to tackle physical problems at microscopic, macroscopic and super-macroscopic length scales. In particular, the combination of gauge symmetry and an effective metric tensor provides a framework for and leads to an alternative dynamics of cosmic expansion based on quantum Yang-Mills gravity at the super-macroscopic limit. Together with the cosmological principle, one can investigate and derive expanding scale factors, the age of the universe, the cosmic redshift, and the Hubble recession velocity. Furthermore, this framework leads to a possible explanation for the late-time accelerated cosmic expansion due to baryon masses and charges. All these discussions are based on the operationally defined space and time coordinates of inertial frames. Finally, this book expounds on the intimate relationship between space-time translation gauge symmetry and the beautiful ideas of the Lie derivative and Pauli's variation. One interesting application of the Lie derivative is to formulate a gravitational theory with an external space-time gauge group, which leads to Yang-Mills gravity.

Book Einstein s Relativity and Beyond

Download or read book Einstein s Relativity and Beyond written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purposes of this book are (1) to explore and expound relativity physics and four-dimensional symmetry from the logically simplest viewpoint by making one single postulate instead of two; and (2) to indicate the simplest generalization of the Lorentz transformation in order to cope with frames with constant linear accelerations. The fundamentally new ideas of the first purpose are developed on the basis of the term paper of a Harvard physics undergraduate. They lead to an unexpected affirmative answer to the long-standing question of whether it is possible to construct a relativity theory without postulating the constancy of the speed of light and retaining only the first postulate of special relativity. This question was discussed in the early years following the discovery of special relativity by many physicists, including Ritz, Tolman, Kunz, Comstock and Pauli, all of whom obtained negative answers. Furthermore, the new theory of relativity indicates the truly universal and fundamental constants in physics, and provides a broad view of relativistic physics beyond special relativity. It substantiates the view and sheds light on the understanding that the four-dimensional symmetry framework can accommodate many different concepts of physical time, including common time and Reichenbach's general concept of time. This logically simplest viewpoint of relativity allows a natural extension of the physics of particles and fields from inertial frames to noninertial frames in which the speed of light is not constant. New predictions in physics resulting from this new viewpoint are discussed. The book is based on papers by the author and his collaborators in Physics Letters A, Nuovo Cimento B, and Physical Review A and D.

Book Space time Symmetry and Quantum Yang Mills Gravity

Download or read book Space time Symmetry and Quantum Yang Mills Gravity written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YangOCoMills gravity is a new theory, consistent with experiments, that brings gravity back to the arena of gauge field theory and quantum mechanics in flat space-time. It provides solutions to long-standing difficulties in physics, such as the incompatibility between Einstein''s principle of general coordinate invariance and modern schemes for a quantum mechanical description of nature, and Noether''s OCyTheorem IIOCO which showed that the principle of general coordinate invariance in general relativity leads to the failure of the law of conservation of energy. YangOCoMills gravity in flat space-time appears to be more physically coherent than conventional gravity in curved space-time. The problems of quantization of the gravitational field, the operational meaning of space-time coordinates and momenta, and the conservation of energy-momentum are all resolved in YangOCoMills gravity.The aim of this book is to provide a treatment of quantum YangOCoMills gravity, with an emphasis on the ideas and evidence that the gravitational field is the manifestation of space-time translational symmetry in flat space-time, and that there exists a fundamental space-time symmetry framework that can encompass all of physics, including gravity, for all inertial and non-inertial frames of reference.

Book Frontiers Of Physics At The Millennium  The  Proceedings Of The Symposium

Download or read book Frontiers Of Physics At The Millennium The Proceedings Of The Symposium written by Jong-ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers high energy physics and particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, nuclear physics, plasma physics, condensed matter and solid state physics, high temperature superconductivity, semiconductors, optics, laser physics, biophysics, mathematical physics and quantum mechanics.

Book Selected Papers of Kun Huang

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Book Memorial Volume For Yi shi Duan

Download or read book Memorial Volume For Yi shi Duan written by Ge Mo-lin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yi-Shi Duan (1927–2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the conservation law of the energy-momentum tensor in general relativity. In 1979, he suggested that the gauge potential could be decomposed, which has important implications to gauge field theory. He trained in China a big team of talents in theoretical physics. His contributions to theoretical physics in China have earned him praise from both Professor Shiing-Shen Chern and Professor Chen-Ning Yang. Contents: SU(2) Gauge Theory and Electrodynamics with N Magnetic Monopoles (Yi-Shi Duan and Mo-Lin Ge)Abelian Decomposition of QCD (Y M Cho)How Can We Understand Quark Confinement in Quantum Yang–Mills Theory? (Kei-Ichi Kondo)Asymmetrical Input-output Control in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Yifu Zhu)Energy and Angular Momentum in Gravity Theories (Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao)Gravitational Energy and the Gauge Theory Perspective (Chiang-Mei Chen and James M Nester)Energy-Momentum in General Relativity (Xiaoning Wu and Xiao Zhang)Introduction to Extra Dimensions and Thick Braneworlds (Yu-Xiao Liu)Appendices: Chronicle of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's LifeChronicle of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's Life (Chinese Version)List of Prof. Yi-Shi Duan's Publications Readership: Graduate students; researchers. Keywords: Yi-Shi Duan;Yang-Mills Theory;General Relativity;Modified Gravity;Gauge Potential Decomposition;Monopole;Energy-Momentum Tenor;Brane World Scenario;Conserved Charge;Cavity Quantum ElectrodynamicsReview: Key Features: Yi-Shi Duan was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity in ChinaHe trained a big team of talents in theoretical physics in China, such as Mo-Lin Ge, Rong-Gen Cai, etc.His contributions to theoretical physics in China have earned him praise from both Professor S S Chern and Professor C N Yang

Book Lorentz and Poincar   Invariance

Download or read book Lorentz and Poincar Invariance written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers provides a broad view of the development of Lorentz and Poincar(r) invariance and spacetime symmetry throughout the past 100 years. The issues explored in these papers include: (1) formulations of relativity theories in which the speed of light is not a universal constant but which are consistent with the four-dimensional symmetry of the Lorentz and Poincar(r) groups and with experimental results, (2) analyses and discussions by Reichenbach concerning the concepts of simultaneity and physical time from a philosophical point of view, and (3) results achieved by the union of the relativity and quantum theories, marking the beginnings of quantum electrodynamics and relativistic quantum mechanics. Ten of the fundamental experiments testing special relativity are also discussed, showing that they actually support a four-dimensional spacetime based on broad Lorentz and Poincar(r) invariance which is more general than and includes the special theory of relativity. The generalization of the concepts of simultaneity, physical time and the nature of the speed of light within a four-dimensional spacetime framework leads to the conclusion that the symmetries embodied by the special theory of relativity can be realized using only a single postulate OCo the principle of relativity for physical laws. Contents: Theoretical Implications of Lorentz and Poincar(r) Invariance: The Dawn of Lorentz and Poincar(r) Invariance (1887OCo1905): Inquiries Regarding the Constancy of the Speed of Light (1908-1910); The Splendid Union of Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (1927OCo1949); The Isotropy of the Speed of Light c: A Convenient Assumption (1963OCo1995); The Logically Simplest Theory of Relativity and Its 4-Dimensional Symmetry (1990OCo1994); Experiments for Lorentz and Poincar(r) Invariance: The Fizeau Experiment; The WilsonOCoWilson Experiment; The Observation of the Muon Lifetime Dilation; The MassOCoVelocity Relation Experiment; The Thomas Precession Experiment; and other papers. Readership: Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and academics in mathematical physics and theoretical physics."

Book Radical Transformation

Download or read book Radical Transformation written by Imants Barušs and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Radical Transformation, Imants Barušs leads the reader out of the receding materialist paradigm into an emerging post-materialist landscape in which new questions present themselves. If consciousness has nonlocal properties, then how are boundaries between events established? If consciousness directly modulates physical manifestation, then what is the scope of such modulation? If consciousness continues after physical death, then how much interference is there from non-physical entities? As we face the threat of extinction on this planet, is there anything in recent consciousness research that can help us? Are there effective means of self-transformation that can be used to enter persistent transcendent states of consciousness that could resolve existential and global crises? The author leads the reader through discussions of meaning, radical transformation, and subtle activism, revealing the unexpected interplay of consciousness and reality along the way.

Book Jingshin Physics Symposium In Memory Of Prof Wolfgang Kroll

Download or read book Jingshin Physics Symposium In Memory Of Prof Wolfgang Kroll written by Jong-ping Hsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr W Kroll, a young post-doc working under Heisenberg at Leipzing in the 1930s, was forced to escape from the Nazis and eventually came to the National Taiwan University in 1941. He taught many of the advanced courses in theoretical physics for over two decades, and prepared a generation of physicists in Taiwan. A symposium on pure and applied physics was held in memory of Prof Kroll at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in August 1996. These proceedings, composed of papers contributed to the symposium by many of Prof Kroll's former students now reaching professorial ranks in the West, reflect in a small measure the legacy he left behind.

Book The Ascent of Information

Download or read book The Ascent of Information written by Caleb Scharf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” —Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Your information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create—all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos—amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it’s an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn’t just something we produce; it’s the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.

Book Jingshin Physics Symposium in Memory of Professor Wolfgang Kroll

Download or read book Jingshin Physics Symposium in Memory of Professor Wolfgang Kroll written by Jong-Ping Hsu and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Journal of Physics

Download or read book Chinese Journal of Physics written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ta you Wu Festschrift  Science of matter

Download or read book The Ta you Wu Festschrift Science of matter written by Shigeji Fujita and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: