New PDF release: The Two Cultures: Shared Problems

By Gabriele Veneziano (auth.), Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danieli, Giuseppe O. Longo (eds.)

ISBN-10: 8847008689

ISBN-13: 9788847008687

The objective of this ebook is to supply a profound and unitary dialogue of difficulties of primary difficulties that, even though universal to the 2 cultures, have commonly been thought of from various perspectives.

Scientists, philosophers, humanists, musicians and artists have collected with the aim of cooperating to set up extra fertile grounds for the verbal exchange among the 2 cultures.

The subject matters handled within the ebook have afflicted mankind for hundreds of years, and innumerable efforts were dedicated to their resolution. the themes contain the concept that of time, the that means of nothingness, infinity, numbers, intelligence and the human brain, the elemental mechanisms within the creation of idea, the connection among creative and medical creativity, and wonder as a bridge among the 2 cultures.

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217–218. 19 from The Princess, 1847, p. 265; comments and text in [20], pp. 167–177 and 292. [24], p. 5. 2 The Flow and the Map: On the Dynamic and Static Views of Time 23 model is not at all the same as the contrast between the flow of time and its representation in historical or in literary narrative, let alone the contrast between the flow of time and the object of artistic aspiration as something transcending time. For the moment, however, I would like to stress the similarities: For they all take the flow of time for granted, but propose an alternative at the same time.

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At present, the expansion of the universe seems not to be slowed down as expected by the presence of matter and its gravitational attraction, but it seems to be accelerated. To obtain such a behavior in the framework of general relativity, the energy density of the universe must be dominated by some gravitationally repulsive component which we term dark energy. What is this dark energy? – A cosmological constant? ) – A dynamical large-scale coherent field which comes to dominate just now? – Modification of general relativity at large scales?

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