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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... atoms (the existence of which was still disputed by some) and the recently discovered electrons. Electrons were estimated to have dimensions on the order of 10 15 meters. Experiments now probe details as small as 10 19 meters, and ...
... atoms. But those atoms themselves were discovered to have a structure that cannot be properly described or understood without transforming the fundamentals of mechanics as passed on from Galileo and Newton. The invention of this new ...
... atoms imagined by the ancient Greeks, but rather could be created or destroyed. From this insight there emerged the ... atom and its constituents. General relativity is needed to extend Newton's theory of gravity to the extreme ...
... atomic and molecular structure, still less of the quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory that underpin them. And though we don't have a theory to explain them, ceramic superconductors are already finding technological applications ...
... atoms and molecules. And we encounter emergent phenomena within physics itself. The air in your room is made from molecules that collide and scatter from one another in a way well described by mechanics. As they collide, the energy of ...
Inhalt
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13 | |
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 |