On the Inside of a Marble From Quantum Mechanics to the Big Bang
Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang’s mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freeze-fra
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On the Inside of a Marble
From Quantum Mechanics to the Big Bang
Astronomers’ Universe
Series editor Martin Beech, Campion College, The University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6960
Gavin Bascom
On the Inside of a Marble From Quantum Mechanics to the Big Bang
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Gavin Bascom Department of Chemistry New York University NY, USA
ISSN 1614-659X ISSN 2197-6651 (electronic) Astronomers’ Universe ISBN 978-3-319-60689-7 ISBN 978-3-319-60690-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-60690-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017943519 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
As a quick introduction to this text, most of the original ideas arose while working on my dissertation in 2014. I was trying to overcome some of the technical difficulties associated with extending dynamic simulations of nucleic acids a couple orders of magnitude in time, and I found that there was a strange anomaly in how we define an observation, especially when cross-corroborating that observation with various experimental setups that span different temporal scales. The resulting conundrums began to sound a lot like some of the oddities of quantum mechanics, despite the fact that I was working entirely in the classical regime, and I found that sure enough statistical mechanics oftentimes mirrors quantum mechanics both mathematically and physically, even if this relationship is seldom talked about. This is especially true when you start to think about measurements which are sensitive to the frame rate at which they are observed, and
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