The sounds of science—a symphony for many instruments and voices

Autor(en)

Gerard T Hooft, William D. Phillips, Anton Zeilinger, Roland Allen, Jim Baggott, François R. Bouchet, Solange M.G. Cantanhede, Lázaro A.M. Castanedo, Ana María Cetto, Alan A. Coley, Bryan J. Dalton, Peyman Fahimi, Sharon Franks, Alex Frano, Edward S. Fry, Steven Goldfarb, Karlheinz Langanke, Chérif F. Matta, Dimitri Nanopoulos, Chad Orzel, Sam Patrick, Viraj A.A. Sanghai, Ivan K. Schuller, Oleg Shpyrko, Suzy Lidström

Abstrakt

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 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.

Organisation(en)

Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation

Externe Organisation(en)

Utrecht University, U.S. Department of Commerce, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Texas A&M University, Independent researcher, Université Paris VI - Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Member of the Brazilian Psychoanalysis Space (EBEP), Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Dalhousie University, Swinburne University of Technology, Université Laval, University of California, San Diego, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Technische Universität Darmstadt, University of British Columbia (UBC), University of Maryland, College Park, University of Melbourne, Union College

Journal

Physica Scripta

Band

99

Anzahl der Seiten

54

ISSN

0031-8949

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad2abe

Publikationsdatum

05-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103010 Geschichte der Physik, 103004 Astrophysik, 103025 Quantenmechanik, 106006 Biophysik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mathematical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

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