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On Time: Causality and the Quantum Gravity Conflict Audiobook, by Jan Zaanen Play Audiobook Sample

On Time: Causality and the Quantum Gravity Conflict Audiobook

On Time: Causality and the Quantum Gravity Conflict Audiobook, by Jan Zaanen Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Richard Trinder Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798855591088

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

8

Longest Chapter Length:

45:38 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21:08 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

38:52 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

This text revolves around a new and unusual view on the most fundamental puzzle of physics. It focusses on the key aspect that makes the role of the time dimension fundamentally different: causality. The implicit and intuitive way by which causality is usually taken for granted is just made explicit and less self-evident, shedding a new light on the gravity-quantum conflict. The case is made that gravity is a necessary condition for a causal universe. But upon turning to the "pure" unitary quantum physics explaining the nature of matter one is dealing with the strictly a-causal time expressed through the thermal quantum field theory machinery. When this a-causal microscopic and causal macroscopic world meet, one encounters the wavefunction collapse, that itself may be rooted in the quantum-gravity conflict. Modern ideas are discussed resting on eigenstate thermalization showing how this may lie eventually at the origin of irreversible thermodynamics. The case is anchored in the sophisticated modern mathematical machinery of both general relativity and quantum physics which is normally barely disseminated beyond the theoretical physics floors.

The book is unique in the regard that the consequences of this machinery are explained in an original, descriptive language conveying the conceptual consequences while avoiding mathematical technicalities.

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