Table of Contents: “…Comeuppance Has HatchesPipe Dream of a Deputy Best Friend; Newfoundland and Labrador; To Come True a Thing Must Come Second; Answer Day; Comfort Proviso with Shadow; Chances at Kill Devil Hills; KILL DEVIL HILLS; The Earliest Work of Literary Criticism; There Are Five Deacons; String Theory Readymade; Receipt; A Whole Host; Littleness of Being; Even Funnier than Pretending to Do It Is Actually Doing It; Velma; The Matter, with Abjection; Less and Less That Is Not a Hotel Anymore; Aerozona Water Letter; Photograph of without Reference To; The Discoverer of Pluto; The Living Many Go Down One.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Strangelove makes a thinking machine ; Smarter, happier, more productive -- Part VII: The cosmos reconsidered. The string theory wars: is beauty truth? ; Einstein, "Spooky action," and the reality of space ; How will the Universe end? …”

Table of Contents: “…Quinn -- Mathematicians chase moonshine's shadow / Erica Klarreich -- The impenetrable proof / Davide Castelvecchi -- A proof that some spaces can't be cut / Kevin Hartnett -- Einstein's first proof / Steven Strogatz -- Why string theory still offers hope we can unify physics / Brian Greene -- The pioneering role of the Sierpinski gasket / Tanya Khovanova, Eric Nie, & Alok Puranik -- Fractals as photographs / Marc Frantz -- Math at the Met / Joseph Dauben & Marjorie Senechal -- Common sense about the common core / Alan H. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Gravity as a field theory and the Kaluza-Klein picture -- The cosmological constant problem and the cosmic coincidence problem -- Effective field theory approach to understanding nature == Supersymmetry : a very brief introduction -- A glimpse of string theory as a 2-dimensional field theory -- Closing words -- Appendixes: A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Some background -- 11.2. String theory -- 11.3. Reality -- 11.4. Further reading…”
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Table of Contents: “…Can Fine-Tuning Be Explained by Inflation, String Theory, or Cyclic Cosmologies? -- A. Can Cyclical Cosmologies Explain the Low Entropy of Our Universe? …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Timothy Gowers -- The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics / Peter Rowlett -- An Adventure in the Nth Dimension / Brian Hayes -- Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers / Terence Tao -- The Strangest Numbers in String Theory / John C. Baez and John Huerta -- Mathematics meets Photography: The Viewable Sphere / David Swart and Bruce Torrence -- Dancing Mathematics and the Mathematics of Dance / Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Karl Schaffer -- Can One Hear the Sound of a Theorem? …”
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Table of Contents: “…; Truth, Depth, and Beauty; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; Summary; Where We Stand Today; 1 Hilbert and the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics; 2 The Rise of Mathematical-Physics; 3 Gauges Theories, Dualities and Fiber bundles; 3.1 Connections in a Fiber Bundle (Elie Cartan); 3.2 The Dawn of Mathematical Physics; 3.3 Algebraic Geometry, Cohomology and Strings theories; 3.4 Cohomology and Invariants; 3.5 String Theory; 3.6 Loop Quantum Gravity; 3.7 Connections Versus Holonomies; 3.8 Quantisation; 4 Non-commutative Geometry…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- Bohmian Mechanics / Roderich Tumulka -- The quantum theory of fields / David Wallace -- Renormalization group methods / Porter Williams -- Locality in (axiomatic) quantum field theory : a minority report / Laura Ruetsche -- Particles in quantum field theory / Doreen Fraser -- The development of quantum gravity : from feelings to phenomena / Dean Rickles -- String theory / Richard David -- Quantum gravity from general relativity / Christian Wüthrich -- Spacetime "emergence" / Nick Huggett -- The problem of time / Karim P.Y. …”

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Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 23 Unifying Trends: Globally Coupled Oscillators in Brain-Body -- Chapter 24 Unifying Concepts: Brain’s String Theory -- Chapter 25 Unifying Concepts: Brain-Body-Mind Integration and Intuitive Processes -- Chapter 26 Need for a Paradigm Shift and a New Cartesian System.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Why is it important? ; What is string theory? ; What is the "measurement problem"? ; How come the quantum?.…”

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