Download or read book Digital Physics written by Ediho Lokanga and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Physics: The Physics of Information, Computation, Self-Organization and Consciousness Q&A is another digital physics book, by the Congolese-born, British-based, Ediho Lokanga. A fascinating book by the African scientist. In it, he attempts to refute several criticisms of his books and offers further arguments, insights, clarifications, and developments of the main idea of digital physics (DP), offering an original vision of reality. In this book, he presents a brief survey of the main idea discussed in his three previous books. For many years now, physicists have been trying to come up with a wonderful theory which will explain everything in the universe and make sense of everything around us. This would be a staggering and wonderful achievement. Digital physicists have added their names to the quest for a ToE from the viewpoint of computation. Physicists are busy attempting to synthesize quantum and relativistic physics. A rich variety of approaches has emerged, and these are competing against each other. The most prominent include string theory (ST), loop quantum gravity (LQG), causal sets, Euclidean gravity, topological quantum field theory (TQFT), non-commutative geometry, Penrose's twistor theory etc. Digital physicists believe they may be able to provide a possible solution to the problem of reconciling general relativity (GR) with quantum mechanics (QM) in the ongoing effort towards a possible theory of quantum gravity, which will better explain the universe in which we live. This would represent a leap forward in the human species' quest for a ToE. For students and researchers this DP Q&A can act as a starting point and an up-to-date reference for developing such a broader perspective. The Q&A presents an overview of some of the many ideas, problems and outstanding philosophical and technical issues. The book introduces the problems of quantum gravity (QG) and ToE, and raises some of the fundamental issues that researchers are trying to address. The book and Q&A are presented at an intermediate and advanced level, but use a non-technical approach so that the reader is exposed to the basic ideas as well as an overview of the results achieved so far.
Download or read book Physics Digital Photography 2Nd Editio written by ANDY. ROWLANDS and published by IOP Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics is fundamental to all aspects of digital photography. This book works through the physics underlying the photographic imaging chain, from image capture through to the production of a viewable output digital image. It provides an invaluable insight into the connections between imaging science and photographic practice and is intended for use by both graduate students and established researchers. In this updated and expanded new edition, the material has been re-organised and extensively rewritten and the figures have been enhanced.
Download or read book Digital Physics written by Ediho Kengete Ta Koi Lokanga and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals astonishing details about the universe, and particularly the unseen consciousness that is embedded in everything in the universe and that expresses itself through computation. This view leads to the realization that computing drives everything in the universe and that the universe can be understood as a self-computing consciousness.Ediho Lokanga argues that there is enough evidence in physics, chemistry and biology to justify a comparison of the universe with a programmed, self-organizing system. Everything around us-be it our planet Earth, a megasystem-like galaxy, photosynthesis in plants, and even the migration of butterflies-is a programmed system in its own right, and all these transformational processes involve computations. Together, all these components are integrated to produce what we call our universe.The last few years have given rise to a steady accumulation of theoretical, experimental, mathematical, and observational evidence that unseen computations drive every action in the universe, and that this view may be necessary to explain certain observed nonphysical, physical, chemical and biological phenomena in a new light. We have reached the point at which some of the most compelling evidence can no longer be ignored: the universe computes. This realization has several implications for humanity and is summarized by the five postulates of digital physics: Computation can describe all things: With the advent and development of computer hardware and software, everything that we use, including literature, pictures, music, images, equations and CDs, is encapsulated in the basic notation of computation.All things can compute: Computers have been made out of various materials, including human brains, Tinkertoys, steel, tungsten, quantum particles and DNA.All computation is one: The work of Alan Turing, Alonso Church, Emil Post and David Deutsch combines the first two postulates into one: the principle that computation is universal means that every constituent of the universe (such as atoms, molecules, and cells) manipulates, computes and transmits information.Holographic computation is used by the universe: This combines the first three postulates into one, and states that humans, animals, plants and particles communicate, compute and transmit information both non-locally and holographically.The universe is a self-organizing system: By transmitting information non-locally and holographically, the universe organizes itself, which means that it is a self-conscious organizing system
Download or read book College Physics written by Paul Peter Urone and published by Breton Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World According to Physics written by Jim Al-Khalili and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale -- Space and time -- Energy and matter -- The quantum world -- Thermodynamics and the arrow of time -- Unification -- The future of physics -- The usefulness of physics -- Thinking like a physicist.
Download or read book Lectures On Computation written by Richard P. Feynman and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1996-09-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the theory of computation, information and communications, the physical aspects of computation, and the physical limits of computers, this text is based on the notes taken by one of its editors, Tony Hey, on a lecture course on computation given b
Download or read book Cambridge IGCSE Physics Workbook written by David Sang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of our successful series to support the Cambridge IGCSE Physics syllabus (0625) is fully updated for the revised syllabus for first examination from 2016. Written by a highly experienced author, Cambridge IGCSE Physics Workbook helps students build the skills required in both their theory and practical examinations. The exercises in this write-in workbook help to consolidate understanding and get used to using knowledge in new situations. They also develop information handling and problem solving skills and develop experimental skills including planning investigations and interpreting results. This accessible book encourages students to engage with the material. The answers to the exercises can be found on the Teacher's Resource CD-ROM.
Download or read book Reality Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy written by David J. Chalmers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already. Along the way, Chalmers conducts a grand tour of big ideas in philosophy and science. He uses virtual reality technology to offer a new perspective on long-established philosophical questions. How do we know that there’s an external world? Is there a god? What is the nature of reality? What’s the relation between mind and body? How can we lead a good life? All of these questions are illuminated or transformed by Chalmers’ mind-bending analysis. Studded with illustrations that bring philosophical issues to life, Reality+ is a major statement that will shape discussion of philosophy, science, and technology for years to come.
Download or read book Beyond Weird written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.
Download or read book Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1991-12-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics
Download or read book Basic Digital Electronics written by J.A. Strong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern electronics is the most visible result of research in solid state physics. Transistors and integrated circuits are used everywhere in ever increasing numbers. The microprocessor controlled coffee-pot exists. Most experimental physicists, and, indeed, experimental scientists in most disciplines, study their subject with the aid of apparatus containing significant amounts of electronics and much of that electronics is digital. In order to design experiments and apparatus or simply to understand how a piece of equipment works, an under standing of electronics has become increasingly important. In recognition that electronics has pervaded so many areas, courses in digital electronics are now a recommended part of physics and many other science degree courses. At the introductory level, digital electronics is, primarily, a practical subject with relatively few basic concepts and any complex ity arises from the coupling together of many simple circuits and the extensive use of feedback. Designing an electronic circuit and then getting it to work correctly provides an experience, and a sense of achievement, which is significantly different from most undergradu ate work as it more closely resembles project work than standard laboratory practicals.
Download or read book The Order of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Download or read book Plato and the Nerd written by Edward Ashford Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering—creating technology—as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans. Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote. Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.
Download or read book What Is and What Will Be written by Paul Budnik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates science with values and meaning by making the simplest possible assumption about the connection between physical structure and conscious experience. The implications extend to the foundations of mathematics and physics suggesting that Einstein's intuition near the end of his life was correct that continuous structures do not exist. The book argues that spiritual instincts have evolved to connect us with the creative aspects of biological evolution which are crucial to long term survival. If the evolution of consciousness is allowed to expand without limit, then whatever ecstatic wondrous experience any being ever experiences is the merest hint of a shadow of what can be and that will always be the case. This follows from Gdel's Incompleteness Theorem and the assumptions of this book.
Download or read book University Physics Volume 1 of 3 1st Edition Textbook written by Samuel J. Ling and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism. Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
Download or read book Physics written by John D. Cutnell and published by Wiley Global Education. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics, 11th Edition provides students with the skills that they need to succeed in this course, by focusing on conceptual understanding; problem solving; and providing real-world applications and relevance. Conceptual Examples, Concepts and Calculations problems, and Check Your Understanding questions help students to understand physics principles. Math Skills boxes, multi-concept problems, and Examples with reasoning steps help students to improve their reasoning skills while solving problems. "The Physics Of" boxes show students how physics principles are relevant to their everyday lives.
Download or read book Physical Perspectives on Computation Computational Perspectives on Physics written by Michael E. Cuffaro and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.