The sounds of science—a symphony for many instruments and voices: part II
T Hooft, Gerard; Phillips, William D.; Zeilinger, Anton; Allen, Roland; Baggott, Jim; Bouchet, François R.; Cantanhede, Solange M.G.; Castanedo, Lázaro A.M.; María Cetto, Ana; Coley, Alan A.; Dalton, Bryan J.; Fahimi, Peyman; Franks, Sharon; Frano, Alex; Fry, Edward S.; Goldfarb, Steven; Langanke, Karlheinz; Matta, Chérif F.; Nanopoulos, Dimitri; Orzel, Chad; Patrick, Sam; Sanghai, Viraj A.A.; Schuller, Ivan K.; Shpyrko, Oleg; Lidström, Suzy
(2024) Physica Scripta, volume 99, issue 5
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Abstract
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries ranging from the meaning of quantum mechanics to the nature of the dark energy that will determine the future of the Universe. It is clearly prohibitive for the general reader, and even the best
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informed physicists, to follow the vast number of technical papers published in the thousands of specialized journals. For this reason, we have asked the leading experts across many of the most important areas of physics to summarise their global assessment of some of the most important issues. In lieu of an extremely long abstract summarising the contents, we invite the reader to look at the section headings and their authors, and then to indulge in a feast of stimulating topics spanning the current frontiers of fundamental physics from ‘The Future of Physics’ by William D Phillips and ‘What characterises topological effects in physics?’ by Gerard ’t Hooft through the contributions of the widest imaginable range of world leaders in their respective areas. This paper is presented as a preface to exciting developments by senior and young scientists in the years that lie ahead, and a complement to the less authoritative popular accounts by journalists.
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Keywords: astrophysics, biophysics, dark energy, fundamental physics, high energy theory, information theory, quantum mechanics, quantum optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mathematical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN: 0031-8949
Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Note: Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
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