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List of contributors | |
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Foreword | |
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Editors' preface | |
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Preface | |
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Laureates' preface: reflections from four physics | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Illumination: The History and Future of Physical Science and Technology | |
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A short history of light in the Western world | |
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Tools and innovation | |
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The future of science | |
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The end of everything: will AI replace humans? Will everything die when the universe freezes over? | |
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Fundamental Physics and Quantum Mechanics | |
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Fundamental constants | |
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New insights on time symmetry in quantum mechanics | |
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The major unknowns in particle physics and cosmology | |
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The major unknown in quantum mechanics: Is it the whole truth? | |
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Precision cosmology and the landscape | |
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Hairy black holes, phase transitions, and AdS/CFT | |
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Astrophysics and Astronomy | |
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The microwave background: a cosmic time machine | |
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Dark matter and dark energy | |
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New directions and intersections for observational cosmology: the case of dark energy | |
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Inward bound: high-resolution astronomy and the quest for black holes and extrasolar planets | |
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Searching for signatures of life beyond the solar system: astrophysical interferometry and the 150 km Exo-Earth Imager | |
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New directions for gravitational wave physics via 'Millikan oil drops' | |
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An 'ultrasonic' image of the embryonic universe: CMB polarization tests of the inflationary paradigm | |
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New Approaches in Technology and Science | |
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Visualizing complexity: development of 4D microscopy and diffraction for imaging in space and time | |
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Is life based on laws of physics? | |
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Quantum information | |
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Emergence in condensed matter physics | |
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Achieving the highest spectral resolution over the widest spectral bandwidth: precision measurement meets ultrafast science | |
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Wireless non-radiative energy transfer | |
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Consciousness and Free Will | |
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The big picture: exploring questions on the boundaries of science - consciousness and free will | |
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Quantum entanglement: from fundamental questions to quantum communication and quantum computation and back | |
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Consciousness, body, and brain: the matter of the mind Gerald | |
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The relation between quantum mechanics and higher brain functions: lessons from quantum computation and neurobiology | |
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Free will and the causal closure of physics | |
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Natural laws and the closure of physics | |
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Anti-Cartesianism and downward causation: reshaping the free-will debate | |
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Can we understand free will? | |
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Reflections on the Big Questions: Mind, Matter. Mathematics, and Ultimate Reality | |
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The big picture: exploring questions on the boundaries of science - mind, matter, mathematics | |
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The mathematical universe | |
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Where do the laws of physics come from? Paul | |
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Science, energy, ethics, and civilization | |
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Life of science, life of faith | |
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The science of light and the light of science: an appreciative theological reflection on the life and work of Charles Hard Townes | |
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Two quibbles about 'ultimate' | |
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Index | |