The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View From Point Particles to the Brane World and Beyond, in Search of a Unifying Principle /

• Main Author: Pav¿Łí™¯ý, Matej. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 119
• Subjects: Physics.; Associative rings.; Rings (Algebra).; Functional analysis.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Functional Analysis.; Quantum Physics.; Associative Rings and Algebras.
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Today many important directions of research are being pursued more or less independently of each other. These are, for instance, strings and mem branes, induced gravity, embedding of spacetime into a higher dimensional space, the brane world scenario, the quantum theory in curved spaces, Fock Schwin...

Table of Contents:

• Point Particles
• The Spinless Point Particle
• Point Particles and Clifford Algebra
• Harmonic Oscillator in Pseudo-Euclidean Space
• Extended Objects
• General Principles of Membrane Kinematics and Dynamics
• More About Physics in M-Space
• Extended Objects and Clifford Algebra
• Quantization
• Brane World
• Spacetime as a Membrane in a Higher-Dimensional Space
• The Einstein-Hilbert Action on the Brane as the Effective Action
• On the Resolution of Time Problem in Quantum Gravity
• Beyond the Horizon
• The Landscape of Theoretical Physics: A Global View
• Nobody Really Understands Quantum Mechanics
• Final Discussion.