Book Reviews of Scientific topics
Book reviews on topics popular to the individual with a casual interest in science. Physics and astronomy are my main interests but I may digress! Quantum Mechanics, Loop Quantum gravity, String Theory, truly intriguing topics.
Books reviewed or pending
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
The following pages will be added in the near future.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Inflationary Universe by Alan H. Guth.
A Brief History of Time, from the big bang to black holes. by Stephen Hawking
The Future of Space Time a book of essays by Stephen W Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephan Hawking
Books I hope to read soon!
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Brainstorming
Black Holes?
Black holes, my guess is they are just a 3 dimensional spherical singularity, not a point, a true spherical hole in spacetime from our perspective! This jives so well with information theory which tells us the information stored in a black hole is proportional to its surface area, not its volume. When a black hole forms it implodes and explodes! Mass falls into the event horizon from outside and is ripped from the center of the dying star into black hole sphere, leaving what?
Bose-Einstein condensate?
What's your guess?
Quantum Entanglement: Direct evidence of another dimension?
Imagine a circle lying on the flatland plain. If Mr. Square is inside the circle he's in trouble! A three dimensional man grabs the edge of the circle and tilts it out of the flatland plane freeing Mr. Square. But now what does Mr. Square see, two points that magically move together seemingly in a correlated way. Is this "Spooky action at a distance" (Quantum Entanglement) as Einstein called it, or just evidence of another higher dimension?