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17 Aug 2006 09:45:33 AM |
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Book for foundations of physics? |
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
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| User: "PD" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
17 Aug 2006 01:00:24 PM |
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wrote:
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, for starters. Then you'll move into
specialized analyses.
There's another lovely survey whose name escapes me. When I return from
being on the road, I'll look it up.
PD
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| User: "T Wake" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
17 Aug 2006 01:49:01 PM |
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"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message
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janzon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, for starters. Then you'll move into
specialized analyses.
Yeah, Penrose's book gets my vote.
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| User: "Greg Hansen" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
18 Aug 2006 09:18:03 PM |
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PD wrote:
janzon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, for starters. Then you'll move into
specialized analyses.
There's another lovely survey whose name escapes me. When I return from
being on the road, I'll look it up.
PD
Maybe Foundations of Physics, by Lindsay and Margeneau?
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| User: "PD" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
19 Aug 2006 06:51:33 AM |
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Greg Hansen wrote:
PD wrote:
janzon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, for starters. Then you'll move into
specialized analyses.
There's another lovely survey whose name escapes me. When I return from
being on the road, I'll look it up.
PD
Maybe Foundations of Physics, by Lindsay and Margeneau?
Also good.
But I was thinking of Theoretical Concepts in Physics, by Malcolm
Longair
PD
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| User: "Sorcerer" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
19 Aug 2006 06:59:14 AM |
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"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
It's amusing to watch you turn red and splutter when you can't find (or
admit) your mistakes. Dork and Blind Poe didn't find the mistake quite
easily
without you pointing it out to them, and yet you can't find it when led
by the hand.
Let's take that as an object lesson, shall we? Perhaps this is one of
the reasons why you make so many short trips to Stupidity. Perhaps this is
also one of the reasons why your long-standing hobby of foaming and
blathering about relativity is a prodigious waste of time. Sort of like
trying to stretch holes in a piece of spacetime with a strand of
undercooked latex.
Androcles
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Book for foundations of physics? |
20 Aug 2006 10:11:22 AM |
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PD wrote:
Greg Hansen wrote:
PD wrote:
janzon@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I'm a guy with quite a solid background in math, but with no knowledge
in physics. I'm looking for books and articles in the following areas:
* Overview of the varying derivations of the laws of physics from
Hamilton's principle, assumptions of symmetries in space and time,
information theory, conservation assumptions, etc. In short: What can
be proven assuming this and that?
* A text dealing with the connection between the number of dimensions
in space and the laws of physics. Maybe answering the question "how
come space has three spatial dimensions and not seven?".
/ Daniel, Sweden
Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality, for starters. Then you'll move into
specialized analyses.
There's another lovely survey whose name escapes me. When I return from
being on the road, I'll look it up.
PD
Maybe Foundations of Physics, by Lindsay and Margeneau?
Also good.
But I was thinking of Theoretical Concepts in Physics, by Malcolm
Longair
PD
How about A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, by Lawrie?
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