(Ebook) New Scientist Essential Guide No.01: The Nature of Reality by Richard Webb (editor)

(Ebook) New Scientist Essential Guide No.01: The Nature of Reality by Richard Webb (editor)

We experience reality all the time – yet we struggle to understand it, or even define what it is. Let New Scientist be your essential guide to this most essential of subjects. 1. What is Reality2. The Mathematical Universe3. Elements of Reality4. The Quantum World5. Reality and Us6. Is Anything Actual Real? Covering topics including:    What is reality? How mathematics, physics and our own perceptions come together to construct reality    The mathematical universe. What lies behind the strange power of physical laws to explain reality's workings?    Particles, forces, energy and fields. How the basic elements of reality fit together    What are space and time? Answering the enigma that sits at the heart of physics    Schrödinger's cat and quantum reality. How our best theory of reality just deepens its mysteries    Into the multiverse. Why our world – and we ourselves – might be just one of infinite copies    Our consciousness and reality. Does what we perceive have anything to do with what's truly out there?    Does free will exist? New scientific takes on an old philosophical conundrum    Is everything just a simulation? Perhaps the most ingenious solution to reality's problems of them all.downmagaz.net