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02371aam a22003858i 4500 001 EB2CFC747B8D11E99D2AC64597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190521010106 008 190208t20192019nyuab b 000 0 eng c 010 $a 2018053095 020 $a 0393609219 020 $a 9780393609219 035 $a (OCoLC)1053996533 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GK8 $d OCLCF $d TP7 $d HHO $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d JNE $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QC75 $b .A38 2019 082 00 $a 530 $2 23 100 1 $a Aguirre, Anthony $q (Anthony Nicholas), $e author. 245 10 $a Cosmological Koans : $b a journey to the heart of physical reality / $c Anthony Aguirre. 246 3 $a Journey to the heart of physical reality 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 384 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "A leading physicist unravels the mysteries of the universe through pleasingly paradoxical Zen- style vignettes. Cosmological Koans takes a fresh approach to explaining the most mind- bending concepts in physics and cosmology by invoking the ancient Zen tradition of the Koan. Anthony Aguirre presents more than fifty beguiling Koans (Could there be a civilization in a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe?) that explore the strange hinterland between the deep structure of the physical world and our personal experience of it. With a flair for explaining complex science, Aguirre covers cosmic questions from the nature of time to the origin of multiple universes, and shows how scientific giants from Aristotle to Galileo to Heisenberg have grappled with them. A playful and enlightening book, Cosmological Koans gives readers what Einstein himself called "the most beautiful and deepest experience" anyone can have: a sense of the mysterious"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Physics $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Cosmology $v Miscellanea. 655 7 $a Koans. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806025031.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20200421011329.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190726010405.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190521013047.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB2CFC747B8D11E99D2AC64597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search