Explaining the Universe: The New Age of PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 05.06.2018 - 264 Seiten In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and billions of years older. We know more about how it came to be and what it is. Because of physics, we live in a world of greater danger and more convenience, smaller particles and bigger ideas. |
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The New Age of Physics John M. Charap. the newspaper may be harmless fun. But to take it seriously is to retreat from ... theory of relativity lay just below the horizon. What was surely unimagined was the enormous divergence of scale ...
The New Age of Physics John M. Charap. ALTHOUGH I HAVE SCRUPULOUSLY TRIED TO AVOID MATHEMATICS in this book, I would have ... theory predicts to that accuracy. It is hard to comprehend what this precision means; it corresponds to the ...
The New Age of Physics John M. Charap. omy which have in this way so utterly changed our picture of the universe, and ... theory and quantum mechanics which gives reason to suppose that we will in the near future have quantum computers ...
The New Age of Physics John M. Charap. Another transformation from the classical worldview inherited from Newton and his rich and fruitful legacy was that wrought by Einstein in his theories ... theory then endowed spacetime with a dynamic ...
The New Age of Physics John M. Charap. chanics led to the prediction of antimatter and to the ... theory is used to yield amazingly precise agreement with the results of experiments in high-energy particle physics. Quantum field theory ...
Inhalt
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3 HEAVENS ABOVE | 24 |
4 CHANCE AND CERTAINTY | 43 |
5 ORDER OUT OF CHAOS | 64 |
6 YOUR PLACE OR MINE | 77 |
7 MANY HISTORIES MANY FUTURES | 86 |
8 MICROCOSM | 100 |
11 IN THE BEGINNING | 151 |
12 DOWN TO EARTH | 172 |
13 EPILOGUE | 188 |
Notes | 195 |
Glossary | 209 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 215 |
Index of Names | 219 |
General Index | 223 |