THE UNIVERSE WITHIN FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS

Book ID/图书代码： 06481012B53289

English Summary/英文概要： This year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.

Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come.

In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores transformative discoveries — from the nature of light, to the evolution of the cosmos, to the bizarre world of the quantum, and the emerging ideas which may yield tomorrow’s technologies. He explains how we can accelerate the pace of discovery by creatively re-inventing the way advanced knowledge is developed and shared, and by opening access to the vast untapped pools of intellectual talent in the developing world.

Drawing from his personal experience, from confronting injustice in apartheid South Africa to becoming a renowned international scientist and educator, Turok explains why scientific research, training, and outreach are vital to our future economy as well as powerful forces for peaceful global progress.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如何運用人類的思維來改變未來? 加拿大理論物理研究所所長尼爾·圖洛克(Neil Turok)分享人類思維創造的奧妙之處。

我們依賴的每一項科技，都是我們運用自己的思維所創作出來，目的在於尋求宇宙的真理。科學知識是人類如今最寶貴的資產，我們的未來取決於是否能突破現有的科技。

本書探討人類思維與科技未來變化的各種可能性，從光的本質屬性、宇宙的演化、奇異的量子世界、推動未來科技發展的創新思考。各種新的技術、尚未開發的科學領域，我們該如何開發和共享。

這部作品根據作者的成長經歷和追求知識的過程，分享人類的思維、科學研究人才的培訓，對於我們居住的地球和未來經濟發展的重要性。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：版權已售: Quadriga (Bastei Lübbe Group) (Germany); Faber (UK); Allen & Unwin (ANZ); Il Saggiatore (Italy); Singongsa (Korea); Nikkei Business (Japan).

THE UNIVERSE WITHIN is on the longlist for Canada’s most prestigious nonfiction prize: The 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2013/longlist_13.asp
shortlisted for the Libris Award for Non-Fiction and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book

The Universe Within takes the reader on a wondrous journey across space and time. Through an artful melding of science and personal narrative, Neil Turok-one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists-conveys not only the excitement of forefront research, but the gripping human drama of exploring ourselves and the cosmos.-Brian Greene

Neil Turok’s Massey Lectures, presented here in book form, provide an elegant, informative, and sometimes moving account, free of technicalities, of those powerful scientific, philosophical and humanitarian influences underlying the personal drives of this highly distinguished mathematical physicist. I strongly recommend it.-Sir Roger Penrose

About the Author/作者介绍： Neil Turok世界頂尖物理學家之一，非洲數理科學研究所(AIMS)的創辦人，他還在非洲建立科學學院，培養年輕科學家。目前他擔任加拿大理論物理研究所所長，曾任劍橋大學數理物理學院主席以及普林斯頓大學物理學教授。

Neil Turok與天文物理學家-史蒂芬·霍金博士，一同創建『Hawking-Turok instanton solutions』解釋了宇宙大爆炸理論，此發明也成為宇宙大爆炸理論的先驅。被賦予『最有創意人才』的稱號。

NEIL TUROK is one of the world’s top physicists and founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), a centre for education and research based in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently the Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, he was formerly the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University and Professor of Physics at Princeton. With Stephen Hawking he developed the Hawking-Turok instanton solutions, which describe the birth of inflationary universes. He is the co-author, with Paul J. Steinhardt, of the critically acclaimed book Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang — Rewriting Cosmic History. He was awarded the 1992 James Clerk Maxwell medal of the U.K. Institute of Physics, and was recently honoured with a prestigious TED Prize and a “Most Innovative People” award at the 2008 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE). Born in South Africa, Turok now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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