Frontiers of Fundamental Physics by Sidharth, B. G.; Honsell, Furio; De Angelis, Alessandro;

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Field Theory, Relativity and Cosmology.- COSMOLOGICAL THEORIES OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY - I.- COSMOLOGICAL THEORIES OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY - II.- CARMELI’S COSMOLOGY: THE UNIVERSE IS SPATIALLY FLAT WITHOUT DARK MATTER.- BLACK HOLES AND THE INFORMATION PARADOX.- A QUANTUM APPROACH TO COSMOLOGY.- MY FOCUS ON THE QUANTUM SOURCE OF GRAVITY.- VACUUM DECAY BY P-BRANES PRODUCTION.- SUPER-STRONG INTERACTING GRAVITONS AS A MAIN ENGINE OF THE UNIVERSE WITHOUT EXPANSION OR DARK ENERGY.- GENERALIZED COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS - RELAXED OR STRENGTHENED.- ATTRACTIONS OF AFFINE QUANTUM GRAVITY.- GRAVITATIONAL TUNNELLING OF RELATIVISTIC SHELLS.- THREE-DIMENSIONAL RELATIVISTIC SIMULATIONS OF ROTATING NEUTRON-STAR COLLAPSE TO A KERR BLACK HOLE.- GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES.- MODEL ANALYSIS OF GRAVITATIONAL SHELL COLLAPSES.- THE DEUTERON AND THE BIG BANG.- ASTROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY OF SCALE RELATIVITY.- MAKING MAPS OF THE REES-SCIAMA EFFECT.- STATIONARY POINTS OF SCALAR FIELDS COUPLED TO GRAVITY.- THE DENSITY MATRIX DEFORMATION IN QUANTUM AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE.- Foundations of Physics.- DARK ENERGY, CHAOTIC FIELDS, AND FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS.- HOW FUNDAMENTAL IS GRAVITATION?.- SCALE-DEPENDENT STOCHASTIC QUANTIZATION.- PRINCIPIA GEOMETRICA PHYSICAE.- DO REAL NUMBERS OBSCURE REAL PHYSICS?.- CANTORIAN SPACE IN NATURE AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS.- MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF INDIVIDUAL QUANTUM STATES.- SPACE AND TIME PHYSICS WITH THE LORENTZ ETHER: THE CLOCK PARADOX.- Nuclear and High-Energy Particle Physics and Astrophysics.- CLUSTERS OF MATTER AND ANTIMATTER - A MECHANISM FOR COLD COMPRESSION.- UNDERSTANDING THE NUCLEON SPIN.- THE MASS AND SPIN OF THE MESONS, BARYONS, AND LEPTONS.- EQUALITY AND IDENTITY AND(IN)DISTINGUISHABILITY IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF NEWTON’S NOTION OF STATE.- NUMERICAL MODELLING OF QUANTUM STATISTICS IN HIGHENERGY PHYSICS.- FRONTIERS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS.- OUTLOOKS ON GAMMA RAY ASTROPHYSICS.- WILL ANTIHYDROGEN LIGHT SHINE?.- PHYSICS POTENTIAL OF THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT.- A GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR FINITE DENSITY QUARK MATTER.- MULTIPHOTON APPROACH ON PAIR PRODUCTION UNDER THE LIGHT OF RECENT EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS.- NIELSEN IDENTITY, WILSON LINE AND CONSTRAINED EFFECTIVE ACTION: THE HIGH TEMPERATURE STANDARD MODEL.- THE MAGIC EXPERIMENT AND ITS FIRST RESULTS.- NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GAMMA-HADRON SEPARATION IN MAGIC.- GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS WITH AGILE.- SIMULATING THE HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY SKY SEEN BY THE GLAST LARGE AREA TELESCOPE.- DARK MATTER DETECTION IN GAMMA ASTROPARTICLE EXPERIMENTS.- CONTRIBUTION OF PULSARS TO THE GAMMA-RAY BACKGROUND AND THEIR OBSERVATION WITH THE SPACE TELESCOPES GLAST AND AGILE.- DATA MINING IN GAMMA ASTROPHYSICS EXPERIMENTS.- GRID SERVICES FOR THE MAGIC EXPERIMENT.- Complex Systems.- TOWARDS A PHYSICAL MODEL FOR MEMORY.- PATTERNS AND DISSIPATIVE WAVES, INCLUDING SOLITONS, IN LATTICES AND AT INTERFACES.- LATTICE PROTEIN MODELS: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO FOLDING AND AGGREGATION PHENOMENA.- INTERFACE DEPINNING FROM WEDGES WITH A CENTRAL RIDGE.- New Approaches to Physics Teaching.- LEARNING PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF FIELD.- ELASTIC WAVES: MENTAL MODELS AND TEACHING/LEARNING SEQUENCES.