量子空间：圈量子引力论和空间、时间、宇宙的结构追寻 Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 448 pages  

Dimensions: 130x 195x 25mm| 330g  

Publication date: 24 Jun 2022 

Publisher: Oxford University Press  

Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom 

Language: English 

Edition Statement: Reprint 

Illustrations note: 30 black and white images 

ISBN10: 0198809123 

ISBN13: 9780198809128 

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

本书结合了对量子理论和广义相对论的清晰讨论，提供了解释新的量子空间和时间理论的首批努力之一。今天，我们有幸拥有两个特别成功的物理学理论。一个是阿尔伯特-爱因斯坦的广义相对论，它描述了物质在弯曲的时空中的大规模行为。

这一理论是大爆炸宇宙学标准模型的基础。在美国的LIGO天文台（然后是意大利的Virgo）发现的引力波只是这一理论的众多胜利中的新成果。第二个是量子力学。

这一理论描述了物质和辐射在其小尺度上的属性和行为。它是粒子物理学标准模型的基础，该模型从夸克、电子和光子等载力粒子的集合中构建了宇宙的所有可见成分。希格斯玻色子在日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心的发现只是这一理论的众多胜利中的新成果。

但是，虽然它们都非常成功，但这两个结构留下了很多重要的问题没有得到解答。它们也是基于对空间和时间的两种不同解释，因此从根本上说是不相容的。我们有两种描述，但就我们所知，我们只有一个宇宙。

我们需要的是一个量子化的引力理论。形成这种理论的方法主要遵循两条路径。一条是弦理论，它长期以来一直很时髦，关于它已经写了很多。

但是弦理论已经陷入了问题的泥潭。在这本书中，吉姆-巴戈特描述了 "少有人走的路"：一种以相对论为出发点的方法，导致了一种叫做环量子引力的结构。巴戈特通过该理论突出的两位贡献者--李-斯莫林和卡洛-罗维利的职业生涯和开创性工作讲述了这个故事。

Combining clear discussions of both quantum theory and general relativity, this book offers one of the first efforts to explain the new quantum theory of space and time. Today we are blessed with two extraordinarily successful theories of physics. The first is Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the large-scale behaviour of matter in a curved spacetime.

This theory is the basis for the standard model of big bang cosmology. The discovery of gravitational waves at the LIGO observatory in the US (and then Virgo, in Italy) is only the most recent of this theory's many triumphs. The second is quantum mechanics.

This theory describes the properties and behaviour of matter and radiation at their smallest scales. It is the basis for the standard model of particle physics, which builds up all the visible constituents of the universe out of collections of quarks, electrons and force-carrying particles such as photons. The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in Geneva is only the most recent of this theory's many triumphs.

But, while they are both highly successful, these two structures leave a lot of important questions unanswered. They are also based on two different interpretations of space and time, and are therefore fundamentally incompatible. We have two descriptions but, as far as we know, we've only ever had one universe.

What we need is a quantum theory of gravity. Approaches to formulating such a theory have primarily followed two paths. One leads to String Theory, which has for long been fashionable, and about which much has been written.

But String Theory has become mired in problems. In this book, Jim Baggott describes "the road less travelled": an approach which takes relativity as its starting point, and leads to a structure called Loop Quantum Gravity. Baggott tells the story through the careers and pioneering work of two of the theory's mostprominent contributors, Lee Smolin and Carlo Rovelli.

作者简介

吉姆-巴戈特是一名自由职业的科学作家。他曾是雷丁大学的化学讲师，但离开后在壳牌国际石油公司工作，后来成为一名独立的商业顾问和培训师。他的许多著作包括《量子现实》。追求量子力学的真正意义--理论的游戏》（OUP，2020），《质量。从希腊原子到量子场理解物质的探索》（OUP, 2017年）、《起源》（Origins）。创造的科学故事》（OUP，2015年），《希格斯："上帝粒子 "的发明和发现》（OUP，2012年），《量子故事》。A History in 40 Moments (OUP, 2011), and A Beginners Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005).

Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to work with Shell International Petroleum Company, and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - A Game of Theories (OUP, 2020), Mass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields (OUP, 2017), Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation (OUP, 2015), Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' (OUP, 2012), The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (OUP, 2011), and A Beginners Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005).